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noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of transport

1 a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
  • was in transports of joy after winning the championship
Synonyms of transport

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

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 of transport

misery, sadness, unhappiness, woe, wretchedness

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

depression
2 something used to carry goods or passengers
  • rising gas prices will impel more people to use public transport
Synonyms of transport

conveyance, transportation, vehicle
Words Related to transport

carrier, hauler, mover

transit

Synonym Discussion of transport

ecstasy, rapture, transport mean intense exaltation of mind and feelings. ecstasy and rapture both suggest a state of trance or near immobility produced by an overpowering emotion. ecstasy may apply to any strong emotion (such as joy, fear, rage, adoration).
    • religious ecstasy
rapture usually implies intense bliss or beatitude.
    • in speechless rapture
transport applies to any powerful emotion that lifts one out of oneself and usually provokes vehement expression or frenzied action.
    • in a transport of rage

transport

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of transport

1 to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
  • I'll have to transport the car to our new home overseas by public carrier
Synonyms of transport

consign, dispatch, pack (off), send, ship, shoot, transfer, transmit
Words Related to transport

convey, deliver, hand over, pass, render

advance, drop, launch

address, forward

export, import

bestow, contribute, donate, give, present

resend, return
Near Antonyms of transport

acquire, draw, earn, gain, garner, get, obtain, procure, secure
Antonyms of transport

accept, receive
2 to fill with great joy
  • was absolutely transported when she heard that her brother was getting married
Synonyms of transport

elate, elevate, enrapture, exhilarate, intoxicate
Words Related to transport

commove, excite, inspire, stimulate, uplift

content, delight, gladden, gratify, please, rejoice, satisfy, warm
Near Antonyms of transport

demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit

distress, oppress, sadden
Antonyms of transport

depress
3 to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
  • was transported with wonder when she saw the Matterhorn for the first time
Synonyms of transport

carry away, enrapture, enthrall (or enthral), entrance, rap, rapture, ravish
Words Related to transport

delight, gladden, gratify, please, satisfy

bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, fascinate

elate, excite, exhilarate, stir
Phrases Synonymous with transport

knock dead, knock one's socks off
4 to force to leave a country
  • the offending journalist was transported out of the country and ordered to never return
Synonyms of transport

banish, deport, displace, exile, expatriate, relegate
Words Related to transport

cast out, dismiss, eject, eliminate, evict, exclude, expel, expulse, kick out, oust, run out, throw out

excommunicate, ostracize, reject, repudiate, spurn

dispossess
Near Antonyms of transport

naturalize, repatriate

accept, admit, receive, take in

entertain, harbor, house, shelter
5 to support and take from one place to another
  • will you transport this heavy casserole dish to the dining room for me?
Synonyms of transport

bear, carry, cart, convey, ferry, haul, lug, pack, tote
Words Related to transport

deliver, hand over, transfer

forward, send, ship, transmit

bring, fetch, take

move, remove, shift

Synonym Discussion of transport

banish, exile, deport, transport mean to remove by authority from a state or country. banish implies compulsory removal from a country not necessarily one's own.
    • banished for seditious activities
exile may imply compulsory removal or an enforced or voluntary absence from one's own country.
    • a writer who exiled himself for political reasons
deport implies sending out of the country an alien who has illegally entered or whose presence is judged inimical to the public welfare.
    • illegal aliens will be deported
transport implies sending a convicted criminal to an overseas penal colony.
    • a convict who was transported to Australia

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