Rapt

/ˈɹæpt/ · adjective

Meaning

(not comparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted..

Definitions by Sense

1. (not comparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
2. (not comparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
3. (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
4. (comparable) Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
5. (obsolete) To transport or ravish.
6. (obsolete) To carry away by force.
7. (obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
8. (obsolete) Rapidity.

Example Sentences

And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.

From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.

The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.

1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247, It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.

Her expression grew more rapt; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:[…].

The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.

The first piece of the night is Shostakovich. Its first movement is a sedate, haunting, almost melodramatic nocturne, but before too long the concerto changes gear and becomes energetic, discordant, feral. It's lengthy, too, a real work-out, and much of it is brutally difficult to execute. He's on form tonight. Close to flawless, and his audience — which he cannot see or hear — seems rapt.

“Citizens of Krapopolis! It is I, your King Tyrannis!” “There's something about you today! We're rapt!” [Cheering]

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• more rapt
• most rapt
• rapts
• rapting
• rapted
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