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{
"rhapsodic":{
"antonyms":[
"depressed"
],
"definitions":{
": extravagantly emotional : rapturous":[],
": resembling or characteristic of a rhapsody":[]
},
"examples":[
"the jingle used in the commercial is a humorously rhapsodic celebration of fast food",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That also goes for one-night stands and moody outbursts and rhapsodic pledges of eternal affection. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
"Among those who love to chase trout with flies made of feathers, just the mention of a certain seven-mile stretch of Utah\u2019s Green River can turn a hardened man rhapsodic . \u2014 Bill Weir, CNN , 18 June 2022",
"Bantering back and forth on a joint Zoom call with EW, the two actors alternate between waxing rhapsodic about history and morality and cracking wise at every opportunity. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The cadenza in the first movement was arrestingly rhapsodic , and the second movement was gorgeously shaped and juicy with portamento. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, Brown\u2019s delirious, rhapsodic mass of bodies come together and move apart through messier, more quotidian movements like stumbling and falling, even as every slip is meticulously choreographed. \u2014 Vogue , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The character\u2019s rhapsodic soliloquies on why baseball is better than democracy and on the poetry of the home run trot are odes in which Ferguson exults. \u2014 Frank Rizzo, Variety , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Because there\u2019s a kind of rhapsodic freedom when they are stranded. \u2014 Kate Aurthur, Variety , 17 Jan. 2022",
"The season ended with a rhapsodic portrayal of her relapse. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1782, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"rap-\u02c8s\u00e4-dik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"ecstatic",
"elated",
"elevated",
"enrapt",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"intoxicated",
"rapt",
"rapturous"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095659",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"rhapsodical":{
"antonyms":[
"depressed"
],
"definitions":{
": extravagantly emotional : rapturous":[],
": resembling or characteristic of a rhapsody":[]
},
"examples":[
"the jingle used in the commercial is a humorously rhapsodic celebration of fast food",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That also goes for one-night stands and moody outbursts and rhapsodic pledges of eternal affection. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
"Among those who love to chase trout with flies made of feathers, just the mention of a certain seven-mile stretch of Utah\u2019s Green River can turn a hardened man rhapsodic . \u2014 Bill Weir, CNN , 18 June 2022",
"Bantering back and forth on a joint Zoom call with EW, the two actors alternate between waxing rhapsodic about history and morality and cracking wise at every opportunity. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The cadenza in the first movement was arrestingly rhapsodic , and the second movement was gorgeously shaped and juicy with portamento. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, Brown\u2019s delirious, rhapsodic mass of bodies come together and move apart through messier, more quotidian movements like stumbling and falling, even as every slip is meticulously choreographed. \u2014 Vogue , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The character\u2019s rhapsodic soliloquies on why baseball is better than democracy and on the poetry of the home run trot are odes in which Ferguson exults. \u2014 Frank Rizzo, Variety , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Because there\u2019s a kind of rhapsodic freedom when they are stranded. \u2014 Kate Aurthur, Variety , 17 Jan. 2022",
"The season ended with a rhapsodic portrayal of her relapse. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1782, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"rap-\u02c8s\u00e4-dik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"ecstatic",
"elated",
"elevated",
"enrapt",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"intoxicated",
"rapt",
"rapturous"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004456",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"rhapsodize":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner":[
"rhapsodize about a new book"
]
},
"examples":[
"rhapsodized about the food so as not to hurt their host's feelings",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At the university campuses on the edge of town, scholars of ancient China were put forward to rhapsodize about new gains in governance, diplomacy, and intellectual life. \u2014 Evan Osnos, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Cars will likely crash, odometers will reach their maximum setting, quips will be made and Vin Diesel will almost invariably rhapsodize about the importance of family. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 14 Dec. 2021",
"All these practices corrupt the information processing of market institutions about which neoliberal ideologues like Friedrich Hayek love to rhapsodize . \u2014 Ryan Cooper, The Week , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Kids rhapsodize about bug-eyed dolls with raspy mini boom boxes inside them, light-up teapots that giggle out tinny tunes. \u2014 Hillary Kelly, Vulture , 4 Nov. 2021",
"CinemaCon is traditionally an opportunity not just to rhapsodize about the magic of movies, but to openly bash streaming services. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 19 Aug. 2021",
"When workers rhapsodize about the benefits of the four-day week, their statements can sound suspiciously like testimonials from an infomercial. \u2014 Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic , 17 June 2021",
"Ricks doesn\u2019t rhapsodize the ancients, but there are plenty of people who do, often in grotesquely ignorant ways. \u2014 Charles King, Washington Post , 6 Nov. 2020",
"Postal stans rhapsodize about its sprawling history, its enduring enrichment of our daily lives. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Aug. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1787, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8rap-s\u0259-\u02ccd\u012bz"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"drool",
"effuse",
"enthuse",
"fuss",
"gush",
"rave",
"slobber"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033901",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rhapsody":{
"antonyms":[
"depression"
],
"definitions":{
": a highly emotional literary work":[],
": a highly emotional utterance":[],
": a miscellaneous collection":[],
": a musical composition of irregular form having an improvisatory character":[],
": a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation":[],
": effusively rapturous or extravagant discourse":[],
": rapture , ecstasy":[]
},
"examples":[
"The mayor launched into a long rhapsody about his plans for the city.",
"listening to Mozart always left him in a rhapsody that lingered for the remainder of the evening",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Thump: Now that\u2019s a New York rhapsody if there ever was one. \u2014 Mark Jacobson, Vulture , 11 Dec. 2021",
"He\u2019s perhaps most famous (and lauded) for films like the Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol or Far From Heaven, his rhapsody on the themes of Douglas Sirk. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 15 Oct. 2021",
"There was rhapsody in these musical seductions \u2014 and the calculation that the way to theater lovers\u2019 hearts was through their cast albums. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Sep. 2021",
"Following a bellowing sax solo during the sixth movement, the symphony\u2019s brass and strings cascade in lilting rhapsody . \u2014 Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor , 23 June 2021",
"Houellebecq harbors Balzacian ambitions as well as Lovecraftian rhapsodies . \u2014 Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic , 21 Jan. 2020",
"Khatia Buniatishvili, a French-Georgian pianist, recalled hearing Ms Argerich\u2019s performance of a Brahms rhapsody in a piece for the New York Times in 2017. \u2014 E.h., The Economist , 22 Aug. 2019",
"Which brings Jepsen to an impassioned rhapsody on a favorite hairstyle: the mullet. \u2014 Brennan Kilbane, Allure , 18 July 2019",
"This generally tranquil, pastoral rhapsody was sincerely played by the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, with notable contributions from oboist Carol Rothrock and flutist Joey Payton. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 June 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin rhapsodia , from Greek rhaps\u014didia recitation of selections from epic poetry, rhapsody, from rhaps\u014didos rhapsodist, from rhaptein to sew, stitch together + aidein to sing \u2014 more at ode":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8rap-s\u0259-d\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"cloud nine",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"heaven",
"high",
"intoxication",
"paradise",
"rapture",
"seventh heaven",
"swoon",
"transport"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225116",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rhason":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a long loose cloak worn over the rhason":[],
": an ecclesiastical garment resembling the cassock":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle Greek rhason , a napless woolen cloth, rhason, perhaps from Latin rasus , past participle of radere to scrape, scratch, shave":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201930",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rhasophore":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a member of a monastic order who has not yet passed through the novitiate : novice":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle Greek rhasophoros from rhason + Greek -phoros -phore":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035230",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rhathymia":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": the state of being carefree : light-heartedness":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek, from rhathymos lighthearted, easy-tempered, carefree (from rha easy, ready + thymos spirit, mind, courage) + -ia -y":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"r\u0259\u02c8th\u012bm\u0113\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193148",
"type":[
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]
},
"rhapsodically":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
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": extravagantly emotional : rapturous":[],
": resembling or characteristic of a rhapsody":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"rap-\u02c8s\u00e4-dik"
],
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"ecstatic",
"elated",
"elevated",
"enrapt",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"intoxicated",
"rapt",
"rapturous"
],
"antonyms":[
"depressed"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"the jingle used in the commercial is a humorously rhapsodic celebration of fast food",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That also goes for one-night stands and moody outbursts and rhapsodic pledges of eternal affection. \u2014 New York Times , 26 June 2022",
"Among those who love to chase trout with flies made of feathers, just the mention of a certain seven-mile stretch of Utah\u2019s Green River can turn a hardened man rhapsodic . \u2014 Bill Weir, CNN , 18 June 2022",
"Bantering back and forth on a joint Zoom call with EW, the two actors alternate between waxing rhapsodic about history and morality and cracking wise at every opportunity. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The cadenza in the first movement was arrestingly rhapsodic , and the second movement was gorgeously shaped and juicy with portamento. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, Brown\u2019s delirious, rhapsodic mass of bodies come together and move apart through messier, more quotidian movements like stumbling and falling, even as every slip is meticulously choreographed. \u2014 Vogue , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The character\u2019s rhapsodic soliloquies on why baseball is better than democracy and on the poetry of the home run trot are odes in which Ferguson exults. \u2014 Frank Rizzo, Variety , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Because there\u2019s a kind of rhapsodic freedom when they are stranded. \u2014 Kate Aurthur, Variety , 17 Jan. 2022",
"The season ended with a rhapsodic portrayal of her relapse. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1782, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042046"
},
"rhapsodist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a professional reciter of epic poems":[],
": one who writes or speaks rhapsodically":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8rap-s\u0259-dist"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Joe Wright\u2019s musical adaptation of the mistaken-identity romance set in 17th century France, the rhapsodist soldier (Peter Dinklage) readies for war with Spain and pines for the unattainable Roxanne (Haley Bennett). \u2014 Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"These rhapsodists were actually Metropolitan Opera stars, cutting loose on their night off with a slightly different art form on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. \u2014 Michael Cooper, New York Times , 13 Dec. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052411"
},
"rhapsoder":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a collector of literary pieces":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"rhapsody + -er":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064839"
},
"rhapsode":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": rhapsodist":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8rap-\u02ccs\u014dd"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There were people called rhapsodes , who would sing Homeric songs at Greek festivals. \u2014 Jennifer Schuessler And Dina Kraft, New York Times , 14 Oct. 2016"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Greek rhaps\u014didos":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1712, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-084821"
},
"rhapontin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a crystalline glucoside C 21 H 24 O 9 found in rhubarb":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"r\u0259\u02c8p\u00e4nt\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary rhapont ic + -in":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103836"
},
"rhapontigenin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a crystalline phenol C 15 H 14 O 4 derived from stilbene and obtained by hydrolysis of rhapontin":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"r\u0259\u02ccp\u00e4nt\u0259\u02c8jen\u0259\u0307n"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary rhaponti n + -genin":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-115802"
},
"rhap":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":{
"rhapsody":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-142115"
},
"rhamnaceae":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a widely distributed family (order Rhamnales ) of thorny shrubs and trees having undivided stipulate leaves and cymose flowers with the stamens opposite the petals and a superior ovary that becomes a 3-celled capsule or a drupe":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"ram\u02c8n\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Rhamnus , type genus + -aceae":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172753"
},
"Rhamnales":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an order of dicotyledonous woody plants in which the stamens are equal in number with the sepals and alternate with them and the ovary is surrounded by a disk":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"ram\u02c8n\u0101(\u02cc)l\u0113z"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Rhamnus + -ales":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002614"
}
}