Euphoric
[yoo-fawr-ik, -for-] /yuˈfɔr ɪk, -ˈfɒr-/
adjective
1.
intensely happy or confident:
She was euphoric when she received the Oscar.
2.
Psychology. in a state of happy and confident well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania.
adj.
1888, with reference to hashish, from euphoria + -ic. The noun meaning “a drug which causes euphoria” is from 1934.
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