rapturous
If you're blissfully happy, you're rapturous. You could describe your purring cat rolling around in catnip as rapturous.
The adjective rapturous is great for describing someone who's delighted, like the rapturous excitement of a room full of teenagers at their favorite pop star's concert, or the rapturous look on a child's face when she opens her birthday present and finds exactly what she had hoped for. The root word of rapturous is the Latin raptus or "a carrying off," and until the mid-1600s, that's exactly what rapture was used to mean.
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feeling great rapture or delightsynonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapt, rhapsodicjoyousfull of or characterized by joy
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Vocabulary lists containing rapturous
Harry can't wait to return for his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, until a house elf named Dobby warns him of terrible danger ahead. When students start turning to stone — and Harry is a prime suspect — the boy wizard must figure out what's really going on at Hogwarts.
In this short story, a king sets up an unusual judicial process to determine the guilt or innocence of accused criminals. When her beloved faces this trial, the princess must decide whether to help him or send him to his death. Read the complete text here.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are sisters whose personalities couldn't be more different. They share joy and heartbreak growing up in the shadow of the Civil War.