rapt Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite feeling great rapture or delight
    rhapsodic; rapturous; enraptured; ecstatic.

WordNet

Rapt
Definitions
  1. imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
Rapt adjective
Definitions
  1. Snatched away; hurried away or along.
    Waters rapt with whirling away. Spenser.
  2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. "The rapt musician." Longfellow. Shak.
Rapt noun
Etymology
From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt, a. See Rapt, a., and Rapid.
Definitions
  1. An ecstasy; a trance. Obs. Bp. Morton.
  2. Rapidity. Obs. Sir T. Browne.
Rapt intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To transport or ravish. Obs. Drayton.
  2. To carry away by force. Obs. Daniel.

Webster 1913