Crossword clues for exhilaration
exhilaration
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exhilaration \Ex*hil`a*ra"tion\, n. [L., exhilaratio.]
The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
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The state of being enlivened or cheerful.
Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion.
--Bacon.Syn: Animation; joyousness; gladness; cheerfulness; gayety; hilarity; merriment; jollity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Late Latin exhilarationem (nominative exhilaratio) "a gladdening," noun of action from past participle stem of exhilarare (see exhilarate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening. 2 The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated.
WordNet
n. the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; "he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed" [syn: excitement]
Wikipedia
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Exhilaration means to exhilarate
Category:Emotions
Usage examples of "exhilaration".
His wide and fleshy chest under barathea or blue lounge suit moved grandly with deep breaths, as if always fresh from some exhilaration.
One can fully appreciate her exhilaration only when she has cooled a bit.
He seemed to be in a mood of exhilaration and monopolised the conversation but he did not once refer to the shrill obligato from the other room.
As he felt himself wrenching out of shape, exhilaration eroded his panic and sang through him.
Tiny and Porta roared with exhilaration and the sled hit the hard-packed snow and bounced up again.
The second is that time I spend in reversionary bodies, like temporarily being a bird to feel that wonderful exhilaration of flying for a few hours, does not subtract from my current life.
Conflicting musical ideas tear across the page, from the page to the keys, and the keys to the earrising into free-fall, daring chromatics, turning triolet shorthand, leaning, crashing in exhilaration, creeping meekly across the keyboard, descending to earthy folk song, daring the dead stop of anguish.
With speed born of exhilaration and more than a touch of fear, Artus rolled away from Balt and jumped to his feet.
Conflicting musical ideas tear across the page, from the page to the keys, and the keys to the earrising into free-fall, daring chromatics, turning triolet shorthand, leaning, crashing in exhilaration, creeping meekly across the keyboard, descending to earthy folk song, daring the dead stop of anguish.
And somewhere elsein her heart, in her headshe felt the almost overwhelming exhilaration of knowing that now it had truly begun, this happiest evening of her life.
Riding at the head of a force one hundred thousand strong, ten thousand mounted, was the headiest sensation he ever remembered feeling, an exhilaration that was powerful, almost sexual.
Nevertheless, the silver MG handled like a dream, and he slipped into the curious, hyperconscious blend of acute attention and exhilaration which characterizes all drivers who handle a car for the sheer love of it.
You can imagine our excitement, our exhilaration, when that gas spectrometry came in.
Crouching in the grass before the barbed-wire-topped fence, Amanda Bull felt a surge of exhilaration flow through her willowlike body.
For Drake the morning passed in an elevated druglike state of private bemusement, shuttling endlessly between exhilaration and dolor as fluently as stepping from sun to shadow and back again.