euphoric
euphorically
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.
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characterized by an exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation
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Synonyms:
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elated, giddy
exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits
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euphoriant
tending to produce euphoria
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expansive
marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
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happy
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
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Antonyms:
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distressed, dysphoric, unhappy
generalized feeling of distress
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dejected
affected or marked by low spirits
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unhappy
experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
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elated, giddy
Vocabulary lists containing euphoric
In this novel, a boy with facial anomalies tries to navigate the sometimes treacherous world of public school. Here is a link to Auggie & Me by R.J. Palacio.
Anna Chiu is a high-schooler who tries to hold her family together as her mother struggles with mental illness.
As Echo moves between the gritty neighborhood she calls home and the privileged neighborhood in which she attends school, she is affected by both the magic and the danger that surrounds her.
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