exhilarant

American  

[ig-zil-er-uhnt] / ɪgˈzɪl ər ənt /

adjective

1. exhilarating.

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noun

1. something that exhilarates.

exhilarant British  

/ ɪɡˈzɪlərənt /

adjective

1. exhilarating; invigorating

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noun

1. something that exhilarates

Etymology

Origin of exhilarant

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

Example Sentences

I’ve had many a plunge overboard off the California coast that shocked me more than that “natural shower bath” did, but never a one with so exhilarant a reaction.

From Project Gutenberg

For months it had haunted him in his idle moments, inspiring him with vague and exhilarant emotions.

From Project Gutenberg

The idea of a train of cars flying across the country had haunted us in many and many a toilsome march; and now to know that such was to bear us over the distance that yet intervened between us and our homes, and to hear its shrill greeting, and to catch sight of its glaring Cyclops-eye, all this was indeed exhilarant.

From Project Gutenberg

The cottage fare, the renovating breeze, The grove, the piny odors, and the flowers, Rambles at morning and the twilight time, Sea-bathing, joyous and exhilarant, Siestas on the rocks, with inhalations Of the pure breathings of the ocean-tide,— Soon wrought in both the maidens visible change.

From Project Gutenberg

And surely that is the best deliverance in all affliction, to be made so spiritually exhilarant that we can rise above it.

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