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Ecstasy Definition


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Ecstasy
noun
    1. slang
      A powerful hallucinatory drug, methylenedioxymethamphetamine.




ecstasy
noun ecstasies
    1. A feeling of immense joy; rapture.
      Thesaurus: rapture, joy, exaltation, rhapsody, delight, bliss, seventh heaven, elation; Antonym: torment.
    2. psychol.
      A trance-like state or any similar state.
Derivative: ecstatic
    Relating to, showing or causing ecstasy.
    colloq
    Very happy or pleased.
      Thesaurus: elated, delirious, euphoric, blissful, rhapsodic, overjoyed, joyful, enraptured; Antonym: downcast.
Derivative: ecstatically
adverb
    Etymology: 14c: from French extasie, from Greek ekstasis standing outside oneself.



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