to exhilarate

Examples

• All

• After the rehearsal, I felt exhilarated.

  Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

• Following Augustine's entrance into the Tiger Bar, Romy and Augustine held an extended, exhilarated reunion.

  Fiction book (1997)

• You wanna feel exhilarated by this whole process.

  The Secret (2006)

• Scared at first, then, exhilarated.

  The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

• I feel safe, so safe, and yet exhilarated by a remote sense of risk.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Exhausted and exhilarated all at the same time.

  Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

• After the shock and embarrassment of his exchange with the night manager, Chris felt exhilarated.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Putting dawn at her back, she headed for home, drained and exhilarated.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Wet and breathless, Wilma was exhilarated by the triumph.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I was pleasantly drained yet exhilarated at our afternoon's adventure as I walked to my lodgings at number seventeen.

  Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

E

to excite

vsto exhilarate

331 2.7

To make someone feel very happy, interested, or eager

is specifically about lively joyful animation rather than broad stimulation

T

to thrill

vsto exhilarate

201 2.1

To give a sudden strong feeling of excitement and pleasure

is generally more sustained and animated rather than only sudden

D

to delight

vsto exhilarate

79 2.1

To please someone very much

adds a brighter, more energetic excitement rather than gentle pleasure

O

to overjoy

vsto exhilarate

21 4.1

Make someone very happy

focuses more on lively, animated energy rather than pure overwhelming joy

E

to elate

vsto exhilarate

19 6.4

To make someone feel very happy and proud

is more about lively, energetic excitement rather than proud calm joy

E

to electrify

vsto exhilarate

14 4.1

To make people feel very excited and want to act

is more about cheerful lively animation rather than sharp sudden shock

E

to enthuse

vsto exhilarate

7 5.5

To make someone feel excited about something

is broader, creating general lively happiness rather than focused enthusiasm

E

to enrapture

vsto exhilarate

• Literature

6 7.8

To make someone feel very happy and amazed

creates lively, active excitement rather than deep passive captivation

E

to exalt

vsto exhilarate

• Literature

6 8.1

To make someone feel very happy and inspired

leans more toward lively animated excitement rather than noble elevation

I

to intoxicate

vsto exhilarate

4 7.0

To make someone feel very excited and happy

is livelier and more energetic rather than broadly uplifting emotion

I

to inebriate

vsto exhilarate

• Literature

1 9.9

To make someone feel very happy or excited

is more immediate and everyday energetic excitement rather than literary rush

S

to set pulses racing

vsto exhilarate

• Informal

1 6.0

To make someone feel very excited, often suddenly

tends to be more vivacious and sustained rather than only sudden thrill

T

to tickle pink

vsto exhilarate

• Informal

1 6.3

Feel very happy and amused by something someone does

is a stronger, more energetic joy rather than light informal pleasure

Antonyms

D

to discourage

257 3.5

To try to stop something by making people less willing to do it

D

to depress

32 4.1

To make someone feel sad and lose hope

How Excited

to thrill

201 2.1

to exhilarate

12 6.9

to delight

79 2.1

to cheer

392 1.0

to gladden

1 3.5

to please

216 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology