Antonyms for rapture
ˈræp tʃərrap·ture

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1. rapture

   The old meaning of enthusiasm implies a pseudo-inspiration, an almost frantic extravagance in behalf of something supposed to be an expression of the divine will. This sense remains as the controlling one in the kindred noun enthusiast. Enthusiasm has now chiefly the meaning of an earnest and commendable devotion, an intense and eager interest. Against the hindrances of the world, nothing great and good can be carried without a certain fervor, intensity, and vehemence; these joined with faith, courage, and hopefulness make enthusiasm. Zeal is burning earnestness, always tending to vigorous action with all the devotion of enthusiasm, tho often without its hopefulness. Compare EAGER.

   Antonyms:
   calculation, calmness, caution, coldness, deadness, dulness, indifference, lukewarmness, policy, prudence, timidity, wariness

   Synonyms:
   ardor, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, enthusiasm, excitement, extravagance, fanaticism, fervency, fervor, frenzy, inspiration, intensity, passion, transport, vehemence, warmth, zeal

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1. rapture

   Antonyms:
   agony, torture, pain, tedium, ennui, irksomeness

   Synonyms:
   ecstasy, transport, bliss, ravishment, delight

Matched Categories

1. • Bliss

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1. ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptusnoun

   a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

   "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens

   Synonyms:
   go, transferral, hug drug, disco biscuit, ictus, tape transport, transport, seizure, shipping, deification, transportation, apotheosis, raptus, exaltation, tape drive, transfer, ecstasy, conveyance, cristal

2. ecstasy, rapturenoun

   a state of elated bliss

   Synonyms:
   raptus, cristal, exaltation, disco biscuit, ecstasy, go, hug drug, transport

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1. rapturenoun

   Synonyms:
   ecstasy, transport, delight, bliss, beatitude

How to use rapture in a sentence?

1. Allison Kearney:

   Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

2. Ben Carson:

   I don't believe in a secret rapture, where people just, he's just sitting here one minute and he disappears.

3. George Gordon Byron:

   There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

4. Publius Ovidius NasoOvid:

   The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

5. Rolling Stone:

   There was no bigger album of 2014 -- in terms of surprise, generosity and controversy, bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. put their lives on the line: giving away 11 songs of guitar rapture and frank, emotional tales of how they became a band out of the rough streets and spiritual ferment of Seventies Dublin.

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