- present participle of exhilarate.
exhilarating
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
Explanation
Something exhilarating is so exciting it makes you a little giddy. "Snowboarding that black-diamond trail was exhilarating!" Zipping through the snow is certainly exhilarating, but ski bunnies and snowboarders might not choose this fancy adjective first. They might just yell, "Woohoo!" It's always been a fun-loving word; its Latin roots mean "gladden, cheer." A ride on a glass elevator with a cute vampire could be exhilarating, and so could a surprise party, or a ride on an old roller coaster. It can be so refreshing, you can't exhale after something exhilarating happens.
Vocabulary lists containing exhilarating
The Giver
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Example Sentences
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When you just watched the most exhilarating game of the year, and a host of Huskies are all chanting “Heis-man!” in unison, it’s probably best to take a breath.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2023
“That was the most exhilarating game I’ve ever been a part of.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2023
Mountain brings together some of the strongest adventure sport cinematography of recent years, ricocheting around the planet, from Nepal to New Zealand and Austria to Antarctica, in an exhilarating game of vertical pinball.
From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2017
At a time when many racing games try so hard to capture the majesty of machines and deliver grandeur and photo-realistic settings, it's worth celebrating an exhilarating game full of chaos.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2011
“Try young Black,” suggested Hardy at this juncture, when we were having a short interval of rest from our exhilarating game of leather-hunting, which had now been going on for two hours and more.
From Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral by Anonymous
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