0 showing extreme pleasure and happiness or excitement:
As the final chords rang round the auditorium, the entire school rose in rapturous applause; the tour had started well.
Rapturous descriptions of the sights that awaited explorers at the top of a mountain are common in travelogues.
The moon's rapturous form evaporates into "the flux of things," but not before inspiring an ideal vision of perfect beauty through perfect form.
The orchestra agrees: it figures this rapturous statement as literally true.
The initial material returns with soft-centred strings above hypnotic vibraphone f iguration and is sung to a close by the rapturous sound of bowed vibraphone chords.
I agree that the applause at the end of my excellent speech was not rapturous.
I am sure that he will be met with rapturous applause if he tells them that again.
I was told that the viewers were positively rapturous.