as in ecstasy
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
listening to Mozart always left him in a rhapsody that lingered for the remainder of the evening
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Recent Examples of rhapsody
Like the rhapsody, the concerto employs plenty of jazz elements.
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Eric E. Harrison, arkansasonline.com, 25 Sep. 2024
Starting in September, the ensemble will perform three popular movie scores, concerti and several takes on rhapsodies — including Gershwin's famous one and a fusion of of his work with Queen.
—The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2024
Their meeting was almost poetic, a confluence of basketball eras, a rhapsody in sneakers.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get at the strangeness of stardom.
—Frances Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 29 Feb. 2024
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Eric E. Harrison, arkansasonline.com, 25 Sep. 2024
Starting in September, the ensemble will perform three popular movie scores, concerti and several takes on rhapsodies — including Gershwin's famous one and a fusion of of his work with Queen.
—The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2024
Their meeting was almost poetic, a confluence of basketball eras, a rhapsody in sneakers.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get at the strangeness of stardom.
—Frances Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 29 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhapsody
Noun
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Earlier, Waters is seen in a spasm of ecstasy after the aspiring lifestyle guru shows an intensely yellow egg yolk that came from one her famous rescue chickens.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
5 Mar. 2025
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When searching him and his car, police found a loaded 9 mm handgun on the driver’s side floorboard and 16 grams of ecstasy in his possession, the release said.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Giant old growth conifers rise towards the heavens while thick ferns and mosses blanket the forest floor, all combining to dampen sound.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
4 Mar. 2025
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Typically, missions surveying the heavens have wide fields of view but at only a handful of individual or groups of wavelengths of light.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That idea—of a grand continuum, in which the circumstances change but all of our big human feelings (heartache, joy, unease, panic, contentment) remain the same, across time and vast distances—felt germane to her new songs.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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But as one top seed was declared, then another, then another, a different feeling crept over the group than the joy that filled the room this time last year.—
Austin Knoblauch,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Rhapsody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhapsody. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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