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\rap-SOD-ik\
adjective
1. extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
2. pertaining to, characteristic of, or of the nature or form of rhapsody.
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If you should consume them, I would be more than just happy, perhaps even rhapsodic, and I will personally drive back to the house and get you yet another from my own personal cellar.
-- T. C. Boyle, When the Killing's Done, 2011
Origin
Rhapsodic entered English in the mid-1700s as an adjectival form of rhapsody, which derives from the Greek rhapsōidía meaning "recital of epic poetry."
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