Synonyms of rhapsody

rhapsody

noun

ˈrap-sə-dē 

as in ecstasy

a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion

listening to Mozart always left him in a rhapsody that lingered for the remainder of the evening

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ecstasy
• heaven
• joy
• rapture
• happiness
• trance
• delight
• paradise
• elation
• frenzy
• euphoria
• intoxication
• pleasure
• bliss
• high
• joyfulness
• exhilaration
• transport
• swoon
• glee
• blissfulness
• reverie
• cloud nine
• exaltation
• joyousness
• cheerfulness
• seventh heaven
• elatedness
• enchantment
• felicity
• madness
• gladness
• fervor
• blessedness
• exuberance
• gayety
• inspiration
• jubilation
• cheer
• gaiety
• passion
• jubilance
• gleefulness
• lightheartedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• depression
• sadness
• misery
• woe
• melancholy
• unhappiness
• wretchedness
• blues
• despair
• gloom
• dejection
• desolation
• despondency
• dumps
• dreariness
• doldrums
• gloominess
• forlornness
• heartsickness
• disheartenment
• downheartedness
• mopes
• dispiritedness
• disconsolateness

Examples of rhapsody in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get at the strangeness of stardom. —Frances Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 29 Feb. 2024

To watch Chita Rivera in her prime was to experience the rhapsody of theatricality in motion. —Peter Marks, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024

Amid the arcana, Liszt was still writing Hungarian rhapsodies, not to mention arrangements of polkas by Smetana and other salon-ready fare. —Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023

Call it a rhapsody in red. —Manyin Li, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021