To speak or write with intense, expansive enthusiasm about someone or something.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- rhapsodize about a place
- rhapsodize over a performance
On the page
She rhapsodized about the mountain light long after the photographs were put away.
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Word forms
- Base
- rhapsodize
- Past tense
- rhapsodized
- Past participle
- rhapsodized
- Present participle
- rhapsodizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- rhapsodize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are rhapsodizing
- Present perfect
- have/has rhapsodized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been rhapsodizing
- Past
- rhapsodized
- Past continuous
- was/were rhapsodizing
- Past perfect
- had rhapsodized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been rhapsodizing
- Future
- will rhapsodize
- Future continuous
- will be rhapsodizing
- Future perfect
- will have rhapsodized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been rhapsodizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated prose. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: rhapsodize; rhapsodizes; rhapsodized; rhapsodized; rhapsodizing Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Collins current enthusiastic speech plus rhapsodise spelling; accepted for extravagant expansiveness, not plain approval. Writing functions: precise action, characterization. Third-person singular: rhapsodizes.
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