Definitions
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 , orpleasure . - noun That which
exhilarates .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But when trying to understand what happened, it is important to remember that filming and photographing the colonel's battered body was not only an exhilarant act of rage.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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But when trying to understand what happened, it is important to remember that filming and photographing the colonel's battered body was not only an exhilarant act of rage.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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Numerous times he had risked his life in combat, exhilarant the cry of his charge.
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The lecturer took it as a matter of course, and replied, "Oh, yes, you will find the whole atmosphere of Boston exhilarant with intellectual vitality."
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various
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It increases the heart action and is said to be such an exhilarant that the natives of the Andes are enabled to make extra-ordinary forced marches by chewing the leaves containing it.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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And surely that is the best deliverance in all affliction, to be made so spiritually exhilarant that we can rise above it.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett
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Belief which is never oxygenated by open confession can never nourish the soul into vigorous and exhilarant health.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett
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African colonists insist that the native Christians are the worst -- this should not be set down to Christianity, but to the civilisation which goes with it, and, in place of Kaffir beer and such like home-fermented brews of comparatively mild exhilarant character, introduces the undisciplined native mind to the furious joys of trade fire-water.
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It increases the heart action and is said to be such an exhilarant that the natives of the Andes are enabled to make extraordinary forced marches by chewing the leaves containing it.
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Psyche has loosed herself from the fettering contact of Daimon, and lo, now, how daintily she poises on tiptoe, fluttering her wings ere she launches like a star into the wide exhilarant ether!
hernesheir commented on the word exhilarant
(adj): causing joy or pleasure; enlivening.
(n): that which causes joy or pleasure.
January 6, 2009