rapt
Plural: rapts
Adjective Satellite
- feeling great rapture or delight
Adj
- Snatched, taken away; abducted.
- Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
- Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
- Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
Verb
- To transport or ravish.
- To carry away by force.
Noun
- An ecstasy; a trance.
- Rapidity.
Adjective
- Completely absorbed or engrossed, often with intense delight.
Examples
- He was rapt with his exam results.
- He watched with rapt attention as his opponent played a seven-letter word, wondering if it was valid.
- The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).
Synonyms
ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rhapsodic, enthralled, entranced, hypnotized, mesmerized, rapt, transfixed
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 6
rapt: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrapt: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rapt: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary