Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun In crystallography, a compound or twin crystal consisting of three united crystals. See
twin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
thrill . - adjective Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing a surge of emotion or excitement
- adjective causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock
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Examples
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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.
Mary Marie 1920
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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.
Mary Marie 1894
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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.
The Seattle Times 2011
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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.
Maybe she's older than I thought Roger Sutton 2007
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Dynamite Entertainment presents the ultimate in thrilling mystery as they unveil Sherlock Holmes!
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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).
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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 2008
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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 2008
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Oxygen mask needed in thrilling national title game
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Oxygen mask needed in thrilling national title game - USATODAY. com
bilby commented on the word thrilling
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.
November 10, 2008