Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Piercing; penetrating.
- That thrills or stirs with subtle permeating emotion or sensation, as of pleasure, pain, horror, wonder, or the like: as, a thrilling adventure; a thrilling experience.
- n. In crystallography, a compound or twin crystal consisting of three united crystals. See twin.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of thrill.
- adj. Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing a surge of emotion or excitement
- adj. causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock
Examples
“Now that would have been what I called thrilling, real thrilling, especially if he jumped or grew red, or white, or stammered, or stopped short, or anything to show that he'd seen us -- and cared.”
“Now _that_ would have been what I called thrilling, real thrilling, especially if he jumped or grew red, or white, or stammered, or stopped short, or anything to show that he'd seen us -- and cared.”
“Of course what kid doesn't like to look at fountains and water but once the Japanese Koi come up to feed it is has a whole new meaning to the word thrilling.”
“I'm only laughing because I don't think of either books as being a "young adult novel," nor do I think "thrilling" is how a kid who describe either.”
“Dynamite Entertainment presents the ultimate in thrilling mystery as they unveil Sherlock Holmes!”
“Oxygen mask needed in thrilling national title game”
“Oxygen mask needed in thrilling national title game - USATODAY. com”
“Neil made the most telling point (for me) of the whole conference by recalling his sense of excitement and wonder at reading a certain thrilling adventure novel as a child, then his surprise on returning to that same book as an adult and finding the prose quite flat and clunky (think Famous Five).”
“A Ringworld prequel like FLEET OF WORLDS, JUGGLER OF WORLDS is an engaging science fiction thriller intended to and succeeding in thrilling long time fans of the series.”
Juggler Of Worlds-Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
“Early today (Sunday night ET), Phelps, Lezak and their 4x100-meter freestyle relay teammates regained the Olympic title they owned from 1964 to 1996, in thrilling fashion and world-record time, keeping Phelps on track for a record eight gold medals.”
Phelps on pace as U.S. 4x100 freestyle relay grabs gold, world record
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thrilling’.
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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courtneysue75's Words
snickerdoodle, crisp, sparkle, serendipity, buttery, dramatic, flit, zip, thwack, monkey, butterscotch, thrilling and 26 more...
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TT3 Lesson 25
England, London, Figure out, flat, Tourist informati..., Underground, brochure, exchange student, traveling, thrilling, foreigner, mansion and 59 more...
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TN9 Lesson 97
Trafalgar Square, square, London, England, pigeon, exchange student, foreigner, take advantage of, advantage, disadvantage, countryside, host family and 58 more...
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TornSkiex's Words
ironic, eclipse, quiver, present, fork, silence, dangerous, peasant, thrilling, geek, lover, procrastinate
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descriptors
mutilated, prolific, calmer, entwined, enthralled, thrilling, innumerable, rhapsodic, unfathomed
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Rainy words
rainy, translation, single-handedly, thrilling, self-deprecating, jaw-dropping, basically, amorphous
Tweets
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bilby
Llywelyn's faint breath
still alive for us here,
in Builth, where our exiled leader
sought entrance, knocked and knocked:
and the reply is still thrilling,
cascading on the local hills,
charging and challenging, charging torrents
of protest and blood on the wind.
- Iwan Llwyd, 'Two Poems', translated from the Welsh by the author. Nov 10, 2008