Meaning & use
Ravished
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Filled with intense delight or rapture; overwhelmed with joy or beauty.
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The audience was ravished by the soprano's flawless performance.
She stood ravished by the view from the mountaintop at sunrise.
A note on using this word
This word has an older, now largely archaic and offensive sense of 'raped by force,' so in modern usage it is almost always understood in its figurative meaning of being overcome with delight.
Words with a similar meaning
enrapturedenchanted
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Words with an opposite meaning
repulsed
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