Answer by Roaring Fish for A more appropriate word for feeling "high"?
Excited. While high as in 'on drugs' might justify words like ecstatic, euphoric, or elated, I am not sure anyone would get into that state playing a guitar.
View ArticleAnswer by dkretz for A more appropriate word for feeling "high"?
Exhilarated suggests to me the appropriate sense of a not-intense mood that may extend for about the same amount of time. Most of the other suggestions seem more transient.
View ArticleAnswer by JayCouture.com for A more appropriate word for feeling "high"?
I would assume this is in regards to proper English usage as opposed to colloquial or slang expressions. If slang a few that come to mind, "On cloud 9" or "On a pink cloud" are a couple.
View ArticleAnswer by James Waldby - jwpat7 for A more appropriate word for feeling "high"?
The previously-suggested words euphoric, elated, and ecstatic all are good, but don't overlook exhilarated ("refreshingly thrilled") and exuberant ("high-spirited; extremely energetic or enthusiastic").
View ArticleAnswer by John Lawler for A more appropriate word for feeling "high"?
It's going to be hard to displace a natural and well-established Metaphor like the UP/DOWN family of metaphor themes.Being metaphorically high, for whatever reason, and in whatever way, is coherent...
View ArticleAnswer by zpletan for A more appropriate word for feeling "high"?
A phrase (not a single word, unfortunately) to describe this state might be deliriously happy or delirious with joy.
View ArticleAnswer by JLG for A more appropriate word for feeling "high"?
You could say that the person is one of the following:feeling alivein high spiritsin good spiritslightheartedupbeat
View ArticleAnswer by Adam Musch for A more appropriate word for feeling "high"?
Euphoria, or in this case euphoric.
View ArticleAnswer by Paola for A more appropriate word for feeling "high"?
What about "feeling elated"? According to the Oxford Dictionary, if means "very happy and excited because of something good that has happened, or will happen".or else "ecstatic", which in the same...
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What is a more formal or appropriate word to replace the word high when writing "feeling high"? By feeling "high", I don't mean the person has to be smoking weed or taking crack. So the person is not...
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