单词 | euphoric |
释义 | euphoric (once / 22556 pages) adj To be euphoric is to be carried away with amazingly good feelings. The euphoric feeling of having won the lottery ended quickly when you saw your pet ferret chewing up your lottery ticket. When someone's euphoric, they're so happy that they might have lost touch with reality for the moment. This “too good to be true” quality is one reason some drug-induced states get described as euphoric. In fact, euphoria, which euphoric stems from, originally meant a feeling of wellness caused in the sick by the use of drugs. WORD FAMILYeuphoric: euphorically+/euphory: euphoric USAGE EXAMPLESIn Week 1204 the Empress asked for some post-election “silver linings” for those who were less than euphoric over the election results. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Consumers likewise seem euphoric, with multiple measures of consumer confidence recently reaching business-cycle highs. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) A once-submissive population filled the streets with euphoric scenes never seen before in The Gambia. BBC(Dec 12, 2016) adj exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation Syn|Ant elated exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits euphorianttending to produce euphoria expansivemarked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur happyenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure distressed, dysphoric, unhappy generalized feeling of distress dejectedaffected or marked by low spirits unhappyexperiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent |
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