rhapsodic's Usage Examples:

Yet in several respects the conditions under which the singer finds himself in the house of a chieftain like Odysseus or Alcinous are more in harmony with the character of Homeric poetry than those of the later rhapsodic contests.

untouchable sound, the look, the rhapsodic rhetoric, and the strangeness.

They had the untouchable sound, the look, the rhapsodic rhetoric, and the strangeness.

The " rhapsodic theogony " in particular exercised great influence on Neoplatonism.

These poems were recited at rhapsodic contests together with those of Homer and Hesiod, and Orphic hymns were used in the Eleusinian mysteries.

With regard to the prayers, they are based upon forms common to this and other Church orders, but have many lengthy interpolations of an inflated and rhapsodic kind.

Sericulture was enjoined under penalties by statute; it was encouraged by bounties and rewards; and its prosecution was stimulated by learned essays and rhapsodical rhymes, of which this is a sample: " Where Wormes and Food doe naturally abound A gallant Silken Trade must there be found.

You will find nothing Bohemian, and precious little that's rhapsodic, here.

The popular style, good illustrations and pious spirit pervading the writings of Lavater have given to them a popularity they little deserved, as there is no system in his work, which chiefly consists of rhapsodical comments upon the several portraits.

It 's a fierce, disjointed, rhapsodic piece.

Synonyms:

ecstatic, joyous, enraptured, rapturous, rapt,

Antonyms:

cheerless, sorrowful, dejected, unhappy, joyless,