rapt
/ˈɹæpt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
adj
Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
adj
Example Sentences
- "And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot."
- "From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove."
- "The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat."
- "1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247, It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind."
- "Her expression grew more rapt; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:[…]."
- "The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more rapt (comparative)
rapter (comparative, uncommon)
most rapt (superlative)
raptest (superlative, uncommon)
rapts (present, singular)
rapting (participle, present)
rapted (participle, past)
rapted (past)
rapts (plural)