euphoricadj.n.
/juːˈfɒrik/ A. adj.
Pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by euphoria. Hence, characterized by a feeling of well-being, cheerful; also, producing or causing cheerfulness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > characterized by feeling of well-being
euphoric1888
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [adjective] > euphoric
euphoric1888
1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 361 Dr. Battaglia produced [by hashish] a great variety of symptoms with great uniformity, but never the commonly reported euphoric apathy.
1925 W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. (ed. 2) 394 When we have laughed, we commonly experience..its pleasing euphoric effects.
1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 53 Come, peregrine nymph, display your warm Euphoric flanks in their full glory Of liberal life.
1951 R. Hoggart Auden vi. 196 Behind the slightly glittering euphoric exterior, the misery of a whole society.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 July 426/4 The euphoric pipe-smoking President.
1958 A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot ii. 271 It seemed impossible that she could truly be as euphoric as she seemed.
1959 Listener 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > euphoric drug
euphoric1934
euphoriant1947
up1969
1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1951 A. Burger Medicinal Chem. ii. 9 The South American Indians..chewed coca leaves as a stimulant and euphoric.
1958 A. Huxley Brave New World Revisited (1959) viii. 102 The classical euphoric, alcohol..in excessive doses, causes illness and addiction.
Derivatives
euˈphorically adv. in a euphoric manner; cheerfully.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adverb] > characterized by feeling of well-being
euphorically1958
the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [adverb] > in euphoric manner
euphorically1958
1958 Observer 8 June 15/6 The picaresque Sgt. Bilko has been crackling on ingeniously and euphorically now for week after week after week.
1963 Times 15 Jan. 11/2 The euphorically minded husband.
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