Usually means: Intense joy or delight; euphoria.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word ecstasy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ecstasy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Ecstasy, ecstasy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ecstasy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ecstasy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ecstasy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ecstasy, ecstasy: Wordnik
  7. ecstasy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ecstasy, ecstasy: Wiktionary
  9. ecstasy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ecstasy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ecstasy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ecstasy: Dictionary.com
  13. ecstasy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ecstasy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Ecstasy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ecstasy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ecstasy: Rhymezone
  19. ecstasy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ecstasy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ecstasy: Free Dictionary
  22. ecstasy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ecstasy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ecstasy (disambiguation), ecstasy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ecstasy (disambiguation), ecstasy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ecstasy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamine): Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Ecstasy (disambiguation), ecstasy: Medical dictionary
  7. Ecstasy: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ecstasy, Ecstasy, Ecstasy: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. Ecstasy: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ecstasy: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ecstasy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ecstasy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Ecstasy: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Ecstasy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ecstasies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Intense pleasure.
noun:  A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
noun:  A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
noun:  (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
noun:  (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
noun:  (medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible.
verb:  (intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
verb:  (transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.
noun:  (slang) Alternative letter-case form of ecstasy (“drug”) [Intense pleasure.]

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