Rapture

What do we mean by rapture?

The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy. noun

An expression of ecstatic feeling. noun

The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven, by supernatural means. noun

An event in the eschatology of certain Christian groups in which believers in Christ will be taken up to heaven either prior to or at the Second Coming. noun

To enrapture. transitive verb

To enrapture.

A violent taking and carrying away; seizure; forcible removal. noun

Violent transporting movement; a rapid carrying or going along; moving energy. noun

A state of mental transport or exaltation; ecstasy. noun

Ecstatic elevation of thought or feeling; lofty or soaring enthusiasm; exalted or absorbing earnestness. noun

A manifestation of mental transport; an ecstatic utterance or action; an expression of exalted or passionate feeling of any kind; a rhapsody. noun

An ecstasy of passionate excitement; a paroxysm or fit from excessive emotion. noun

Synonyms Transport, bliss, exaltation. noun

To transport with excitement; to enrapture. transitive verb

A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. noun

The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy. noun

A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. noun

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. noun

In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.") noun

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")

The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.

Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.

A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Words that are spelled similarly to rapture:
rapture, capture, rupture, rature.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word rapture:
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Words that rhyme with rapture:
capture, enrapture, recapture.

Adjectives that are often used to describe rapture:
such, first, careless, fine, holy, secret, ecstatic, mystical, silent, divine, religious, poetic, sudden, spiritual, wild, perfect, mystic, pure, much, heavenly, aesthetic, highest, strange, tribulation, quiet, sweet, very, intense, prophetic, unspeakable, calm, speechless, pretribulational, solemn, mute, lyrical, blissful, enthusiastic, deep, sacred, sexual, sheer, ancient, passionate, indescribable, momentary, exquisite, inward, joyous, endless, celestial, modified, emotional, equal, romantic, pious, devout, delirious, unutterable, visionary, utter, supreme, sublime, ineffable, devotional, youthful, sincerer, affected, eternal, absolute, sensual, grateful, erotic, breathless, purest, inexpressible, infinite.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective rapture:
light, giving, fraught, breathing, world, theory.

Consonant match to rapture:
rupture.

Words that sound like rapture:
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