English-Thai Dictionary

rapture

N ความปิติยินดี อย่างยิ่ง  ความดีใจ ล้นเหลือ  ความพึงพอใจ อย่างมาก  happiness pleasure satisfaction kwam-pi-ti-yin-de-yang-ying

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RAPTURE

n.[L. raptus, rapio.] 1. A seizing by violence. [Little used. ]
2. Transport; ecstasy; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure.
Music when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion and advances praise into rapture.
3. Rapidity with violence; a hurrying along with velocity; as rolling with torrent rapture.
4. Enthusiasm; uncommon heat of imagination.
You grow correct, that once with rapture writ.

 

RAPTURED

a.Ravished; transported. [But enraptured is generally used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RAPTURE

Rap "ture, n. Etym: [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid. ]

 

1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs. ] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.

 

2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy. Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. Addison. You grow correct that once with rapture writ. Pope.

 

3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs. ] Shak.

 

Syn. -- Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.

 

RAPTURE

Rap "ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.]

 

Defn: To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic ] Thomson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

rapture

rap ture |ˈrapCHər ˈræptʃər | ▶noun 1 a feeling of intense pleasure or joy: Leonora listened with rapture. • (raptures ) expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something: the tabloids went into raptures about her. 2 (the Rapture ) (according to some millenarian teaching ) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ. ▶verb [ with obj. ] (usu. be raptured ) (according to some millenarian teaching ) transport (a believer ) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off ’): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura ‘seizing, ’ partly influenced by rapt .

 

rapture of the deep

rap ture of the deep ▶noun informal term for nitrogen narcosis.

 

Oxford Dictionary

rapture

rap |ture |ˈraptʃə | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] a feeling of intense pleasure or joy: Leonora listened with rapture. • (raptures ) expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something: the tabloids went into raptures about her. 2 ( the Rapture ) N. Amer. (according to some millenarian teaching ) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ. ▶verb [ with obj. ] N. Amer. (according to some millenarian teaching ) transport (a believer ) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ. PHRASES rapture of the deep informal nitrogen narcosis. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off ’): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura ‘seizing ’, partly influenced by rapt .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

rapture

rapture noun she gazed at him in rapture: ecstasy, bliss, exaltation, euphoria, elation, joy, enchantment, delight, happiness, pleasure. PHRASES go into raptures the crowd went into raptures over Carreras's rendition of "Some Enchanted Evening ": enthuse, rhapsodize, rave, gush, wax lyrical; informal go wild /crazy /mad. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD rapture, bliss, ecstasy, euphoria, transport Happiness is one thing; bliss is another, suggesting a state of utter joy and contentment (marital bliss ). Ecstasy is even more extreme, describing a trancelike state in which one loses consciousness of one's surroundings (the ecstasy of young love ). Although rapture originally referred to being raised or lifted out of oneself by divine power, nowadays it is used in much the same sense as ecstasy to describe an elevated sensation of bliss (she listened in speechless rapture to her favorite soprano ). Transport applies to any powerful emotion by which one is carried away (a transport of delight ). When happiness is carried to an extreme or crosses over into mania, it is called euphoria. Euphoria may outwardly resemble ecstasy or rapture; but upon closer examination, it is usually found to be exaggerated and out of proportion (the euphoria that came over him whenever he touched alcohol ).These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

rapture

rapture noun she gazed up at him in rapture: ecstasy, bliss, euphoria, elation, exaltation, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, transport, rhapsody, enchantment, delight, exhilaration, happiness, pleasure, ravishment; informal the top of the world; humorous delectation. ANTONYMS boredom, indifference. PHRASES go into raptures the critics went into raptures about her performance: enthuse, rhapsodize, rave, gush, wax lyrical, express intense pleasure /enthusiasm; heap praise on, praise to the skies, make much of; informal go wild /mad /crazy.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

rapture

rap ture /rǽptʃə r /名詞 U ｟文 ｠〖しばしば ～s 〗有頂天, 歓喜 .g ò into [be in ] r á ptures ｟主に英 かたく ｠ «…で » 歓喜にひたる, 有頂天になる, «…の » とりこになる «over , about , at » .