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rhapsody

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Synonyms & Antonyms of rhapsody

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 for rhapsody

cloud nine,
ecstasy,
elatedness,
elation,
euphoria,
exhilaration,
heaven,
high,
intoxication,
paradise,
rapture,
seventh heaven,
swoon,
transport

Words Related to rhapsody

exaltation

blessedness,
bliss,
blissfulness,
delight,
enchantment,
felicity,
gladness,
happiness,
joy,
joyfulness,
joyousness,
pleasure

reverie,
trance

inspiration

fervor,
frenzy,
madness,
passion

cheer,
cheerfulness,
exuberance,
gaiety
(also gayety),
glee,
gleefulness,
jubilance,
jubilation,
lightheartedness

Near Antonyms for rhapsody

misery,
sadness,
unhappiness,
woe,
wretchedness

blues,
dejection,
desolation,
despair,
despondency,
disconsolateness,
disheartenment,
dispiritedness,
doldrums,
downheartedness,
dreariness,
dumps,
forlornness,
gloom,
gloominess,
heartsickness,
melancholy,
mopes

Antonyms for rhapsody

depression

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“Rhapsody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhapsody. Accessed 16 Oct. 2021.

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