Meaning & use
Dithyrambic
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Wildly enthusiastic, passionate, or emotionally intense, especially in speech or writing.
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The critic's dithyrambic review praised every scene of the film in breathless superlatives.
His dithyrambic toast went on for nearly twenty minutes.
A note on using this word
Derived from the 'dithyramb,' an ancient Greek choral hymn sung in wild praise of the god Dionysus.
Words with a similar meaning
rapturouseffusive
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restrainedmeasured
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