Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deeply moved or delighted; enraptured.
- adjective Deeply absorbed; engrossed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To seize or grasp; seize and carry off; ravish.
- To transport as with ecstasy; enrapture.
- Seized with ecstasy; transported; exalted; ecstatic; in a state of rapture.
- noun A preterit and past participle of rap.
- noun Transporting force or energy; resistless movement.
- noun An ecstasy; a trance.
- noun A carrying off; an abduction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An ecstasy; a trance.
- noun obsolete Rapidity.
- transitive verb obsolete To transport or ravish.
- transitive verb obsolete To carry away by force.
- imp. & p. p. of
rap , to snatch away. - adjective Snatched away; hurried away or along.
- adjective Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.
- adjective Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable, archaic Snatched, taken away; abducted.
- adjective not comparable Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
- adjective comparable Very
interested ,involved in something,absorbed ,transfixed ;fascinated orengrossed . - adjective comparable
Enthusiatic ;ecstatic ,elated ,happy . - verb obsolete To
transport orravish . - verb obsolete To
carry away byforce .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling great rapture or delight
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mrs Barnum sat before him, her face lit by the evening light that shone in from the single window in the room, her expression rapt – as if she were looking upon divinity.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Mrs Barnum sat before him, her face lit by the evening light that shone in from the single window in the room, her expression rapt – as if she were looking upon divinity.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Mrs Barnum sat before him, her face lit by the evening light that shone in from the single window in the room, her expression rapt – as if she were looking upon divinity.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Sir Ian McKellen and the members of England's Royal Shakespeare Company sat in rapt attention inside an inner-city Los Angeles classroom.
Classroom Heroes: Rafe Esquith's Mission To Share Shakespeare With His Students The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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They spend time in rapt attention, and the drawing is born.
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The cast will be reunited and America will be able to follow their “lives” in rapt horror/fascination for a further 12 episodes starting in mid-to-late summer of this year.
DVR This: JERSEY SHORE gets a 2nd Season; PARKS AND RECREATION Renewed for a Third – Collider.com 2010
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Still, his nervousness proved to be unwarranted as he kept the audience in rapt attention with his loose, off the cuff demeanor and laconic sense of humor (it didn't hurt that BodyWorld is very funny; Shaw's voices for his characters were hilariously fitting).
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Sir Ian McKellen and the members of England's Royal Shakespeare Company sat in rapt attention inside an inner-city Los Angeles classroom.
Classroom Heroes: Rafe Esquith's Mission To Share Shakespeare With His Students The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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Ethical implications aside, his lectures were generously garnished with anecdotes that held his wide-eyed freshmen audience in rapt attention.
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The kind of movie she loved so much, without a Hollywood plot or orthodox three-act structure, but episodic, with characters that felt real and whom you loved being around, and who kept you in rapt attention wanting to know who they would bring into their orbit next and what random experiences they might have.
The Celebrity I’ll Miss the Most: Celebrating Linda Posell « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009
82times commented on the word rapt
I really love this word.
Q: How was the Low concert last night?
A: Man, I was rapt.
September 27, 2007
milosrdenstvi commented on the word rapt
But we went back to the Abbey, and sat on,
So much the gathering darkness charmed: we sat
But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie,
Perchance upon the future man: the walls
Blackened about us, bats wheeled, and owls whooped,
And gradually the powers of the night,
That range above the region of the wind,
Deepening the courts of twilight broke them up
Through all the silent spaces of the worlds,
Beyond all thought into the Heaven of Heavens.
Tennyson, The Princess
October 20, 2010