ecstatic

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cstatic (adj)
Meaning
feeling extremely happy and excited / feeling great rapture or delight
More Examples
Coggan said his clients were ecstatic about the judge's ruling. Roh was ecstatic about the results of the meeting. More then 40,000 ecstatic fans filled stadia each night to scream at the girly they instantly dubbed the Mighty Minogue. The passage takes off thereafter in ecstatic inventory. Her reading of the passions of men and women in the past so often revealed that ecstatic love ended in tragedy. Being ecstatic means being flung out of your usual self. Jacqueline was ecstatic to see her old friends again.
About Word
The adjective ecstatic turns the noun "ecstasy" into a descriptive word. When Celine hit that high note, the audience was ecstatic. Originally, ecstatic had religious connotations having to do with the sheer joy of knowing God or someone truly holy. That meaning remains today, but ecstatic now includes almost anything that's really pleasurable or wonderful. I was ecstatic at the news that I'd been nominated for an award. The entire world reacted with an ecstatic sense of glee when the Berlin Wall finally came down. The hangover the next day, though, wasn't so ecstatic.
Origins
1590s, "mystically absorbed, stupefied," from Greek ekstatikos "unstable," from ekstasis (see ecstatic ). Meaning "characterized by intense emotions" is from 1660s, now usually pleasurable ones, but not originally always so. Related: Ecstatical ; ecstatically.