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cloud nine (noun)
a feeling of well-being or elation - usually used with on still on cloud nine weeks after winning the championship
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cloud nine (noun)
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
SYNONYMS:
cloud nine, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, heaven, high, intoxication, paradise, rapture, rhapsody, seventh heaven, swoon, transport
RELATED WORDS:
exaltation; blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, delight, enchantment, felicity, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, pleasure; reverie, trance; inspiration; fervor, frenzy, madness, passion; cheer, cheerfulness, exuberance, gaiety ( gayety), glee, gleefulness, jubilance, jubilation, lightheartedness
NEAR ANTONYMS:
misery, sadness, unhappiness, woe, wretchedness; blues, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, heartsickness, melancholy, mopes
depression
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Cloud Nine, cloud 9 or cloud nine is a name colloquially given to the state of euphoria, and may refer to:

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Etymology

The origin of sense 1 (“a state of bliss”) is uncertain; however, the following etymology has been suggested. (This etymology would explain the "nine" aspect, while not being the de novo origin of the "cloud" aspect; the extension of the meterological idea to an emotional valence would not have been a de novo development, as the association of clouds with dreaminess long predates the 1890s.)

  • The first edition of the International Cloud Atlas (1896), which defined ten types of cloud, described the ninth type as the cumulonimbus which rises to 10 km (6.2 miles), the highest a cloud can be.

Compare cloud seven (“state of complete happiness or euphoria”), which may have originated from confusion of cloud nine with seventh heaven.

Sense 2 (“a state of fantastic or impractical dreaming or thinking”) may be due to a confusion between sense 1 and the phrase

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Joy, happiness, delight, rapture, exaltation, paradise, felicity, contentment, jubilation, beatitude

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