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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Serving to exhilarate; exhilarating.
  • noun Something that exhilarates or stimulates.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Exhilarating; causing exhilaration.
  • noun That which exhilarates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure.
  • noun That which exhilarates.

Etymologies

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Latin exhilarans, exhilarantis, present participle. See exhilarate.

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  • (adj): causing joy or pleasure; enlivening.

    (n): that which causes joy or pleasure.

    January 6, 2009