Definition of "rapturous" []

• Filled with great joy or rapture; ecstatic. (adjective)

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• "If he had thought her expression rapturous before, he’d been wrong."
• "Tim heard my cries, and he arrived at the witch's school to be bathed in rapturous love from the prepubescent masses."
• "She nodded and turned to face him, expecting—and hoping for—a passionate kiss, an expression of rapturous joy on his face."