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euphoric, a. and n.|juːˈfɒrik|
[f. euphoria: see -ic.]
A. adj. Pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by euphoria. Hence, characterized by a feeling of well-being, cheerful; also, producing or causing cheerfulness.
1888Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. I. 361 Dr. Battaglia produced [by hashish] a great variety of symptoms with great uniformity, but never the commonly reported euphoric apathy. 1925W. McDougall Introd. Soc. Psychol. (ed. 2) 394 When we have laughed, we commonly experience..its pleasing euphoric effects. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 53 Come, peregrine nymph, display your warm Euphoric flanks in their full glory Of liberal life. 1951R. Hoggart Auden vi. 196 Behind the slightly glittering euphoric exterior, the misery of a whole society. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 12 July 426/4 The euphoric pipe-smoking President. 1958A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot ii. 271 It seemed impossible that she could truly be as euphoric as she seemed. 1959Listener 20 Aug. 296/2 Two criminal alcoholics, one desperate, the other euphoric.
B. n. A drug, etc., which produces a sense of euphoria; = euphoriant n.
1934in Webster. 1951A. Burger Medicinal Chem. ii. 9 The South American Indians..chewed coca leaves as a stimulant and euphoric. 1958A. Huxley Brave New World Revisited (1959) viii. 102 The classical euphoric, alcohol..in excessive doses, causes illness and addiction.
Hence euˈphorically adv., in a euphoric manner; cheerfully.
1958Observer 8 June 15/6 The picaresque Sgt. Bilko has been crackling on ingeniously and euphorically now for week after week after week. 1963Times 15 Jan. 11/2 The euphorically minded husband. |