adj · noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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/ˈɹæpt/
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rhymes with -æpt
homophone: rapped
homophone: wrapped
homophone: wrapt
CMU ARPABET:R AE1 P T
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
adj
Meaning 1
Snatched, taken away; abducted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
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2
adj
Meaning 2
Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Meaning 3
Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparable
Examples
The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247, It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
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adj
Meaning 4
Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparable
Examples
He was rapt with his exam results.
2010, Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why, John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121, Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher′s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.
2012, Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures, HarperCollins (New Zealand), unnumbered page, These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.
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noun
Meaning 5
An ecstasy; a trance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 6
Rapidity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 7
To transport or ravish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 8
To carry away by force.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
1819-20, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., reprinted in 1840, The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 1, page 256, His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop of goblin grandchildren.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 9
feeling great rapture or delight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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