Rhapsodize

Quick meaning: Rhapsodize is a verb meaning (intransitive) To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).

Meaning

(intransitive) To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.
2. (transitive) To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.
3. (intransitive) To perform a rhapsody.

Example Sentences

Ron was rhapsodizing about his new broom to anybody who would listen.

“Listen, my pearl,” he rhapsodized. “I have money now and you shall have dresses like rainbows, a gold tiara and slave girls to wait on you […]”

How can one rhapsodise over a view when surrounded by beer-stained tables? How lose one’s self in historical reverie amid the odour of roast veal and spinach?

King Charles has rhapsodized about the charms of Romania for decades. “There is a sense of age-old continuity here,” he explained in a story last year in The Spectator.

Word Forms

• rhapsodizes
• rhapsodizing
• rhapsodized
• rhapsodise

Synonyms for rhapsodize

Depending on context, synonyms include rave.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rave, rhapsody, rapture, overpraise, grandiloquize, overlaud.

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