Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, resembling, or characteristic of a rhapsody.
- adj. Immoderately impassioned or enthusiastic; ecstatic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as rhapsodical.
Wiktionary
- adj. highly emotional; rapturous
- adj. Of or relating to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody
- adj. by extension confused, unconnected
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody; hence, confused; unconnected.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling great rapture or delight
Etymologies
- rhapsody + -ic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My rhapsodic is all shiny because I've been waxing it so much.”
mrissa: My rhapsodic is all shiny because I've been waxing it so much.
“mrissa: My rhapsodic is all shiny because I've been waxing it so much.”
mrissa: My rhapsodic is all shiny because I've been waxing it so much.
“Molly Bloom’s chapter, which concludes Ulysses, is the famous example of this kind of rhapsodic, blow-the-top-off-your-head writing.”
Ed Park and the Fine Art of Blow-the-Top-Off-Your-Head Writing
“My caregivers have been instructed that if I ever describe myself as "rhapsodic" they are to continue plunging a Philips screwdriver into my throat until everyone's arms are tired.”
Cause once is really never ever enough times to be nitwit of the day
“My caregivers have been instructed that if I ever describe myself as "rhapsodic" they are to continue plunging a Philips screwdriver into my throat until everyone's arms are tired.”
Cause once is really never ever enough times to be nitwit of the day
“Don't go off into some kind of rhapsodic whiz thing going -- you know, I've always admired your work and you look great today.”
“He added that it is not necessary to share Comcast and NBCU's "rhapsodic" view of the deal to approve it, only to conclude that the case for imposing a laundry list of conditions has not been made.”
“He then went on to attack the rest of the press for "rhapsodic" coverage of Obama and described the New York Times as "as far left as you can get".”
“Let your love be hallowed," croons a rhapsodic chorus to a married couple, mid-row, in Richard Strauss's bewildering masterpiece, Die Frau ohne Schatten.”
The Guardian: Die Frau ohne Schatten; BBC Proms 61 & 62 – review
“The Post once again waxes rhapsodic about the Montgomery County Public Schools [“Gold star for Montgomery schools,” editorial, Sept. 23].”
The Washington Post: Among Md. schools, Montgomery is no outlier
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘rhapsodic’.
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Serendipity's Words
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Hitch Words
Words from the lexicon of Christopher Hitchens
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beautiful words
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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christy927's list
...all my favorite words...
chrysalis, mahogany, indigo, elysian, rubenesque, cataclysmic, scythe, archaic, gaelic, trollop, sycamore, canopy and 279 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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esperanca's Words
portmanteau, vituperative, quixotic, quotidian, pandemonium, vexatious, milieu, moue, cantankerous, flibbertigibet, dalliance, bucolic and 190 more...
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Emotions & Feelings
felicific, felicity, beatific, sanguine, anodyne, doleful, zeal, alacrity, alacritous, tumult, noxious, indurate and 74 more...
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must employ on more frequent occasions
These words I know, I just haven't used them in a while. Time to bring them back into vogue.
questionable, mishap, hectic, prone, departure, retrieve, elsewhere, insurmountable, distraught, immeasurable, potent, ravenous and 76 more...
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palooka's Words
abysmal, iridescence, behemoth, misbegotten, fathomless, catwalk, foible, vapid, caravanserai, happenstance, addled, congeries and 29 more...
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Quodlibets' List
psithurism, bafflegab, tatterdemalion, amaranthine, incarnadine, petrichor, tintinnabulation, gallimaufry, galimatias, sussurus, tetrapyloctomy, rhapsodic and 60 more...
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descriptors
mutilated, prolific, calmer, entwined, enthralled, thrilling, innumerable, rhapsodic, unfathomed
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Desciptives
cogent, kinetic, metrical, debile, pernicious, effete, hortatory, storied, rhapsodic
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