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Jubilant vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?

jubilant | ecstasy |

As an adjective jubilant

is in a state of elation.

As a proper noun ecstasy is

(slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.

jubilant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In a state of elation.

    • Synonyms

    * (in a state of elation) delighted, elated, joyful, thrilled

    Derived terms

    * jubilantly

    ecstasy

    English

    (wikipedia ecstasy)

    Alternative forms

    * extasy

    Noun

  • Intense pleasure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This is the very ecstasy of love.
  • * Milton
    • He on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy .
  • A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
  • * Dryden
    • like a mad prophet in an ecstasy
  • A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
  • (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
  • * Shakespeare
    • That unmatched form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy .
  • * Marlowe
    • Our words will but increase his ecstasy .
  • (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.
  • (medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.
    • (Mayne)

    Synonyms

    * (the drug) MDMA mali; (Modern Vernacular) E, XTC, X, mali, thizz

    Antonyms

    * (intense pleasure) agony

    Related terms

    * ecstatic