as in ecstatic
experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
the enraptured look on the fans' faces during the band's concerts
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as in excited
to fill with great joy
enraptured upon learning that he would be attending college on a full sports scholarship
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as in delighted
to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
this classic ballet of the Christmas season never fails to enrapture audiences young and old
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Recent Examples of enraptured
Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
In the process, Tarr essayed an arresting tone poem about spiritual isolation that enraptured viewers.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
Advertisement Andrea Gibson Courtesy of Apple Watching segments of the performance is poignant, especially in witnessing how the audience is completely enraptured by Gibson’s words.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
McDonald’s other daughter was less enraptured—at least, at first.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
Valentin at first doesn’t care but quickly becomes enraptured by the melodramatic story of a magazine fashion editor (Lopez), her assistant (Tonatiuh), a photographer love interest (Luna) and the mysterious Spider Woman (also Lopez).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Koestler suggests that a stroke of good fortune, or a vision of the sublime, may evoke a sense of powerlessness — of being rapt, overwhelmed, enraptured, entranced — which overlaps with the helplessness of loss and defeat, and which evokes a similar surrender.
—Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
For a generation enraptured by Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film Lost in Translation, that place is the New York Bar at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, the liminal space where Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson’s characters find connection in their loneliness and sameness as strangers in a strange land.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
The commercial humorously cuts to everyday viewers — who might as well be analogs for us on the couch — enraptured by Spears' girl-next-door effervescence.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
In the process, Tarr essayed an arresting tone poem about spiritual isolation that enraptured viewers.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
Advertisement Andrea Gibson Courtesy of Apple Watching segments of the performance is poignant, especially in witnessing how the audience is completely enraptured by Gibson’s words.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
McDonald’s other daughter was less enraptured—at least, at first.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
Valentin at first doesn’t care but quickly becomes enraptured by the melodramatic story of a magazine fashion editor (Lopez), her assistant (Tonatiuh), a photographer love interest (Luna) and the mysterious Spider Woman (also Lopez).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Koestler suggests that a stroke of good fortune, or a vision of the sublime, may evoke a sense of powerlessness — of being rapt, overwhelmed, enraptured, entranced — which overlaps with the helplessness of loss and defeat, and which evokes a similar surrender.
—Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
Who wouldn’t be enraptured by the thought of an evening of cowboy poetry, to which Will invites Andrew for one of their dates?
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
For a generation enraptured by Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film Lost in Translation, that place is the New York Bar at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, the liminal space where Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson’s characters find connection in their loneliness and sameness as strangers in a strange land.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enraptured
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Alonzo Carter, hired in December to lead the program, was spotted in Instagram posts among ecstatic Hornets football players on campus when Orr and Wood told them the FBS move was official.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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The arousal, reward, and bonding systems that produce the ecstatic connection of limerence are also central to the development of addiction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Evan Phillips excited to be back Days after signing a one-year contract to return to the Dodgers — despite being non-tendered earlier in the offseason — Evan Phillips expressed relief at being back.—
Jack Vita,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2026
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Being in France making something that felt inspired by Rohmer excited him.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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Here, the joyous and the boisterous contrast the dark and insidious, allowing viewers to both be delighted by colorful street scenes and celebrations while the rot of fear creeps in, as the details surrounding our main character (Wagner Moura) and his predicament are revealed.—
Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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Twyla Tharp’s ballet Push Comes to Shove, which premiered in 1976, startled and delighted audiences with its coy, self-referential humor, and its flirtation with popular dance styles such as jazz and tango.—
Sara Krolewski,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
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The two men at the forefront of the move to the highest level of NCAA Division I college athletics told their giddy and dancing gridiron student-athletes the historic news on Monday morning.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Like their future disciples in PC Music, Scritti Politti were giddy pop fans who approached the form as self-conscious outsiders, foregrounding its artificiality, pushing its bright colors to new extremes, aiming to make great pop records that also asked probing questions about what pop even is.—
Andy Cush,
Pitchfork,
15 Feb. 2026
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The debate within the Democratic coalition is already bigger and louder, dividing moderates in swing states from progressives elated by Mamdani's rocket to victory in the nation's largest city.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
12 Jan. 2026
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As someone who’s been entranced by cars ever since high school, Toliver uses his car obsession as a vehicle for his own sonic discovery.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The caveat is that they are both entranced by a dream rather than the reality of what a partnership needs.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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So in my early and mid-20s, I was still exhilarated by just being free and alone in the world, and traveling, which agreed with me.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
11 Dec. 2025
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Jen is exhilarated and ready to salsa her tuchis off, postpartum logistics be damned.—
Olivia Crandall,
Vulture,
13 Nov. 2025
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The move – and more, its blunt public announcement – may have pleased Trump world, but turned out to be disastrous for the Post’s business.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Kennedy’s concern with productivity would have pleased Charles Davenport, a powerful leader of 20th-century American eugenics.—
Sarah DiGregorio,
Vanity Fair,
16 Jan. 2026
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