exhilarant

[ ig-zil-er-uhnt ]

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adjective

exhilarating.

noun

something that exhilarates.

Origin of exhilarant

1795–1805; <Latin exhilarant- (stem of exhilarāns), present participle of exhilarāre to gladden. See exhilarate, -ant

Words Nearby exhilarant

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How to use exhilarant in a sentence

In L.A., the really exhilarant cooking was bubbling up from the bottom, not trickling down from the top.
Why Los Angeles Is the Best Food Town in America | Andrew Romano | November 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
I take the wildering whirl, enjoyment's keenest pain, Enamored hate, exhilarant disdain.
Faust | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Certainly ill-fortune must have befallen some one to make the good man so exhilarant.
Paul Prescott's Charge | Horatio Alger
For months it had haunted him in his idle moments, inspiring him with vague and exhilarant emotions.
The Gray Phantom | Herman Landon
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

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

British Dictionary definitions for exhilarant

exhilarant

/ (ɪɡˈzɪlərənt) /

adjective

exhilarating; invigorating

noun

something that exhilarates

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