Ecstatic vs Inspired - What's the difference?
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Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
Extremely happy.
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Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
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(in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.11:
Having excellence through inspiration.
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Filled with inspiration or motivated.
(inspire).
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Ecstatic is a related term of inspired.
As adjectives the difference between ecstatic and inspired
is that ecstatic is feeling or characterized by ecstasy while inspired is having excellence through inspiration.As a noun ecstatic
is (in the plural) transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.As a verb inspired is
(inspire).ecstatic
English
Alternative forms
* ecstatick (obsolete) * extatic (obsolete) * extatick (obsolete) * extatique (qualifier)Adjective
(en adjective)- ecstatic''' gaze; '''ecstatic trance
- This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy.
Synonyms
* blissful * delirious * elated * euphoric * joyful * joyousNoun
(en noun)- I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.
inspired
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The actor's inspired performance of Hamlet's soliloquy left the audience dumbfounded.
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- The artist was inspired to paint a true masterpiece .
- He was inspired to learn to fly.
Verb
(head)citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}