exhilarating

British  

/ ɪɡˈzɪləˌreɪtɪŋ /

adjective

1. causing strong feelings of excitement and happiness

   an exhilarating helicopter trip

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Other Word Forms

• exhilaratingly adverb

Example Sentences

For this writer, the 1964-65 World’s Fair in New York was exhilarating.

From The Wall Street Journal

But much as it’s exciting to watch the group come together, and exhilarating in the good old-fashioned let’s-put-on-a-show way to see them succeed onstage, it’s a pleasure just to watch the actors at work.

From Los Angeles Times

I imagined that my Destiny might be in roving the land as a keen-eyed journalist—recording history’s most exhilarating moments as they unfurled before my very eyes.

From Literature

And I was like, wow, those moments are maybe connected to this feeling of independence and a new kind of personhood that for a child is exhilarating and also really scary.

From The Wall Street Journal

“This Is Where the Serpent Lives” has that kind of ambition and captures its world in the same exhilarating and unsparing way.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• breathtaking
• exciting
• inspiring
• intoxicating
• invigorating
• rousing
• stirring
• thrilling
• uplifting