Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state of being stimulated, refreshed, or elated: "Few Yosemite visitors ever see snow avalanches and fewer still know the exhilaration of riding on them” ( John Muir).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of exhilarating, or of enlivening or cheering; the act of making glad or cheerful.
- n. The state of being enlivened or cheerful; elevation of spirits; joyous enlivenment.
- n. Synonyms Animation, joyousness, gaiety, hilarity, glee.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
- n. The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
- n. The state of being enlivened or cheerful.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
Examples
“Infinite was moved within Himself, and shone and coruscated in that circle, from the centre outward and again to the centre: and that commotion we term exhilaration; and from that exhilaration, variously divided within Himself, was generated the potency of determining the fashioning of the letters.”
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
“Pure exhilaration is in woefully short supply at the movies.”
“You have to admire the joy of one of the four men soaring through the familiar "little swans" variation from "Swan Lake," his smile beaming to the balconies, wide-mouthed in exhilaration and -- in contrast to his colleagues, who were shooting him well-timed disapproving looks -- luxuriating like a little boy in the sheer thrill of flying through space.”
The Washington Post: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Divas infuse humor, character in dances
“But, for all that, there was a certain exhilaration about her.”
“As with other great conductors this young maestro senses, seizes on and communicates every scintilla of its pastoral joy, lugubrious shtetl memory, piquant nostalgia and sky-touching exhilaration, which is not to say that he slights delicacy or subtlety.”
Donna Perlmutter: Dudamel Begins New Era at L.A. Philharmonic
“In a recent article, he recalled the exhilaration of shooting someone as a teenager, and being intoxicated by the rush of living out the I fe he'd seen on screen in "The Godfather.”
“On the second, Larry Hughes lofted the ball high for James, who soared, jammed it in, then came down screaming for several seconds in exhilaration.”
“First exhilaration occurs when a young scientist compares alternative ideas or models with observations and discovers how something works.”
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“The only thing I would confess to is what Winston Churchill, who was an early master of our craft, described as the exhilaration of being shot at without result.”
“The title of my remarks makes reference to the end of the Cold War, and I'm sure everyone in this room recalls the exhilaration with which the world greeted the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in November, 1989.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘exhilaration’.
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A-R-A Words
It's an odd-looking pattern in English. Please add words if it makes you happy. :) K-POW! Wow @gulyasrobi!
scarab, Arawak, Sahara, Arab, pharaoh, caravan, carat, parachute, arachnid, Saran Wrap, Sarah, tarantella and 492 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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DAN BROWN ANGELS AND DEMONS
looming, raspy, grimace, squint, groan, peril, zealot, cruciform, shroud, frown, emblazon, savor and 34 more...
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Happy, happy, joy, joy.
Feel good words.
great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, exhilaration, exuberance, bliss, felicity and 95 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 998 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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Sunbeam
Zoom'om'om; inspiration, vitality, solemness, and sunrays...
inspiral, activation, envision, myselves, recognition, imagination, repattern, exponential, flashforward, syncronicity, swish, sensation and 177 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL E
ebb, ebullition, eccentric, ecclesiastical, echelon, éclat, eclectic, eclogue, ecstasy, ecumenical, edification, edify and 143 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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The Pursuit of Happyness
The emotion so grand it was specifically listed in the Declaration of Indypendence.
happiness, joy, ecstasy, glee, mirth, rapture, joviality, merriment, cheerfulness, bliss, delight, delectation and 12 more...
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Words I like and know of their meanin...
zenith, anathema, maelstrom, sardonic, juxtapose, belladonna, facade, rigor mortis, fiasco, chimera, gallivant, archaic and 64 more...
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Bridge to Terabithia 2
Words 20-40
garish, parapet, prescribed, regicide, speculation, vile, melodic, prissily, consolidated, ominously, intoxicated, vigorous and 8 more...
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Ozmopolitan Words
Words concerning anything Ozian...either from the original books or movie "The Wizard of Oz" or from the Broadway musical "Wicked."
galindafied, greenify, rejoicify, verdigris, swankified, emerald, liquification, ozian, oz, darlingest, momsie, popsical and 78 more...
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Opposites without (commonly used) opp...
inert, inflammable, discombobulate, uncouth, disgruntled, defenestrate, gormless, indefatigable, encumber, miscegination, inept, prophylactic and 19 more...
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SAT Words That Mean 'Lively'
A list of positive SAT words that mean 'lively.' Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master word list. Categorizing words according to meaning can aid in the memorization process.
brisk, dynamic, ebullient, exhilaration, exuberant, inspiring, provocative, scintillating, stimulating, titillating
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wordless's Words
swagger, scion, fuzz, red herring, exacerbate, exhilaration, gloat, protégé
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