✅ Happy describes being delighted or glad about something (I was very happy with my birthday gifts).

✅ While happy covers a range of emotions, from a sense of mild gladness to intense delight, ecstatic suggests the more powerful and intense end of that spectrum (I was happy with my purchases; I was ecstatic after winning the lottery).

✅ Ecstatic can often imply that you can’t contain or hide your feelings (I'm just ecstatic about our trip!).

Write about the last time you felt ecstatic with the help of Grammar Coach.

✅ Experience and ordeal both refer to an event or happening that you go through (It’s normal to be upset after such an ordeal; Our trip abroad was a wonderful experience).

✅ Experience is more general, and can refer to positive events as well as neutral or negative ones (Traveling through the wilderness was quite an experience).

✅ Ordeal implies a very negative experience (You need to take it easy after your ordeal with the shark).

✅ Ordeal can be used jokingly to describe a very mild negative experience (I deserve a treat after that ordeal at the hardware store).

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✅ Good and acceptable both describe things that are satisfactory (a good sandwich; an acceptable performance).

✅ Good suggests something that is positive overall, but could be improved to become great (It was overall a good essay).

✅ Acceptable describes something that meets the minimum expectation, and, generally, needs improving (The hotel room was acceptable, though dated).

✅ Acceptable is sometimes used as a kinder or more polite way to describe something as somewhat unsatisfactory (The coffee was…acceptable).

We hope these synonyms will be at least acceptable!