Ecstatic vs Trilled - What's the difference?
ecstatic | trilled |
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:
(trill)
(music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
(phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation, for example, Spanish rr .
To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
* Dryden
To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
* Thomson
(obsolete) To trickle.
*, II.30:
*:I come now from seeing of a shepheard at Medoc who had no signe at all of genitorie parts: But where they should be, are three little holes, by which his water doth continually tril from him.
* Shakespeare
* Glover
As an adjective ecstatic
is feeling or characterized by ecstasy.As a noun ecstatic
is (in the plural) transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.As a verb trilled is
(trill).ecstatic
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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.
trilled
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Verb
(head)trill
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(Trill consonant)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* trillyVerb
(en verb)- To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
- to trill a note, or the letter r
- The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
- And now and then an ample tear trilled down / Her delicate cheek.
- Whispered sounds / Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.