Ecstatic vs Rave - 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.
* Hammond
(in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.11:
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
(uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music associated with rave parties.
* 2009 , Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
* Addison
* Macaulay
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. ยง 5.
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on .
* Byron
(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
To attend a rave (dance party).
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(Webster 1913)
Ecstatic is a related term of rave.
As nouns the difference between ecstatic and rave
is that ecstatic is (in the plural) transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy while rave is an enthusiastic review (such as of a play) or rave can be one of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.As an adjective ecstatic
is feeling or characterized by ecstasy.As a verb rave is
to wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.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.
rave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops
Verb
(rav)- Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
- The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
- A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
- He raved about her beauty.
- The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
- (Spenser)