Antonyms for ecstatic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ek-stat-ik

Phonetic Transcription : ɛkˈstæt ɪk

Definition of ecstatic

Origin : 1590s, "mystically absorbed, stupefied," from Greek ekstatikos "unstable," from ekstasis (see ecstatic). Meaning "characterized by intense emotions" is from 1660s, now usually pleasurable ones, but not originally always so. Related: Ecstatical; ecstatically.

adj very happy, blissful

Example sentences :

No lawful passion can ever be so bewildering or ecstatic as an unlawful one.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

But they were suddenly drawn from their ecstatic state by a change about them.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

Already have I an ecstatic answer, as I may call it, to my letter.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

The man indeed at times is all upon the ecstatic; one of his phrases.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Rhetors and sham-erudites are ecstatic about Burnside's conduct.
Extract from : « Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 » by Adam Gurowski

They do not heed this––they do not see it––they 156 are on the wings of an ecstatic embrace.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

You live and you make me live in a constant nightmare, with your ecstatic dreams.
Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola

To receive this attraction can be an ecstatic condition, but is by no means ecstasy.
Extract from : « The Prodigal Returns » by Lilian Staveley

An ecstatic light shone in the deep velvet softness of her eyes.
Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum

David threw back his head and shut his eyes in ecstatic bliss.
Extract from : « David Dunne » by Belle Kanaris Maniates

Synonyms for ecstatic

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