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exhilarated
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exhilarated
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our walk to the waterfall left us tired but exhilarated.
▪ She felt exhilarated by her new sense of power.
▪ The first time I flew a plane alone, I felt both exhilarated and scared.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Instead, I made my way back along the sand, watching some evidently exhilarated surfers.
▪ It throbbed with a tender almost exhilarated fatigue.
▪ Now that he was committed to a course of action he felt exhilarated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
exhilarated

exhilarated \exhilarated\ adj. elated, in high spirits, and envigorated. Opposite of dejected.

Syn: gladdened, happy.

Wiktionary
exhilarated

vb. (en-past of: exhilarate)

WordNet
exhilarated

adj. made joyful; "the sun and the wind on his back made him feel exhilarated--happy to be alive" [syn: gladdened]

Usage examples of "exhilarated".

Malenfant felt lifted, exhilarated -- even giddy, he thought, anoxic perhaps, and he made sure he kept his breathing deep and even, making the most of the thin air.

They were exhilarated by their success, but they knew registered voters might not go to the polls on election day.

Though her bare feet stung from gravel, specks of which were imbedded in her soles, she felt exhilarated, free and with a goal.

She looked exhilarated, as she always did after latchkays, even though Yana thought they must be somewhat draining for her too.

Tasm appeared exhilarated while Kad was covertly scanning the pattern buffers on the transporter.

The Colonnades exhilarated her, even if the circumstances were funereal.

One of the younger, more beautiful prostitutes winked openly at Ruth, who felt strangely exhilarated by such a mockingly salacious proposition.

She laughed with him, and they walked along the L bestridden avenue, exhilarated by their escape from murder and suicide in that cellar, toward the nearest cross town track, which they meant to take home to their hotel.

All the way home, the car floating over the capim, he was also flying, exhilarated to know that something was possible after all, when till now he had felt nothing but despair.

She accelerated to the top speed of her vehicle so that the dangers of low level flying exhilarated her and demanded total concentration.

Perhaps the fox wasn't really exhilarated at allthough, just frightened.

At first he had thought his exhilarated mood was the snapback from the bombing mission, the plain joy of being alive after brushing death in a diving plane, in a whirl of blue cones and exploding colored balls.

Tyron clutched her rough neck, terrified and exhilarated by the wild flight.

Elated and exhilarated, she screeched greetings to a flock of goats milling around in a pen, and sighed with happiness as a cluster of young colts galloped in play across a fenced meadow not far from the house.

She felt exhilarated to relearn her disciplines: the nameless technique she had perfected for segmenting her mind, keeping her internal dictionaries distinct.