Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing exhilaration; invigorating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stimulating; enlivening.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
exhilarate . - adjective Refreshingly
thrilling .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective making lively and cheerful
- adjective making lively and joyful
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Examples
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So balmy and exhilarating is it that it is so much atmospheric wine.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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So balmy and exhilarating is it that it is so much atmospheric wine.
Chapter 19 1914
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He leaned over as he spoke, and, laying hold of the rigging, descended to the deck, while the mate took his breath in short, exhilarating gasps.
Many Cargoes 1903
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Eric characterizes Clinton's lead in Indiana as "up", which connotes such things as "upbeat" or "exhilarating" -- even though an 8 point lead, if it were real, would be bad news for Clinton at this stage of the game.
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The whole process develops a flow that every client and reader has described as exhilarating and invigorating and energizing.
SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life Julie Morgenstern 2008
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The whole process develops a flow that every client and reader has described as exhilarating and invigorating and energizing.
SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life Julie Morgenstern 2008
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Many readers, whose lives carry them back before the "forties," taking their stand beneath the broad gateway or pebbled court-yard of our old inns -- the Red Lion, the Bull, or the Crown -- would require a very slight effort of memory to recall the exhilarating spectacle of the arrival and departure of the stage coach of fifty or sixty years ago.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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Few who recall the exhilarating swagger of that victory could fail to be moved by the mournful tone of Friday's television address, or by its suggestion of lost innocence.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Games to cap a campaign that could be described as exhilarating due to
WN.com - Articles related to XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India October 3-14, 2010 2010
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Thailand confirmed their status as top dogs at the Southeast Games with their table-topping display -- but an inquest has already started into why they did Games to cap a campaign that could be described as exhilarating due to
WN.com - Articles related to Families come out tops in Asia in recession - survey 2009
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