Ecstasy

Quick meaning: Ecstasy is a noun meaning Intense pleasure.

Meaning

Intense pleasure.

More Meanings

1. A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
2. A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
3. (intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
4. (transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.
5. (medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible.
6. (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
7. (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.

Example Sentences

an ecstasy of remorse

Come, let us leave him; in his ireful mood / Our words will but increase his ecstasy.

What! are you dreaming, Son! with Eyes cast upwards / Like a mad Prophet in an Ecstasy?

They were thrown into ecstasies of suspicion by finding that we possessed a French translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

Word Forms

• ecstasies
• ecstacy
• ecstasying
• ecstasied

Synonyms for ecstasy

Depending on context, synonyms include rapture, euphoria, molly, E, eckie, ecky.

Antonyms for ecstasy

Common opposites include agony.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rapture, exaltation, transport, adam, methylenedioxymethamphetamine, bliss.

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