as in ecstatic
experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
the winner's exhilarated glow was seen in newspaper photographs around the globe
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as in thrilled
to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings
the exhilarating feeling of flying that hang gliding offers
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as in excited
to fill with great joy
the climactic moment of commencement ceremonies usually exhilarates graduates and proud parents alike
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Recent Examples of exhilarated
Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Unlike his exhilarated mother, Titus reacted neutrally.
—Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
She was surrounded by exhilarated doctors who had completed the first successful fetal brain surgery two days earlier.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
The video showing Masataka Yoshida’s return to Red Sox camp is charming and sweet, telling the story of an exhausted but exhilarated champion rejoining his American baseball teammates.
—Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
The day of races produced no formal winners or losers — just a lot of exhilarated athletes and boosters.
—Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2022
Adjective
Walking into that pitch-black space, not seeing anything while having my eyes wide open exhilarated and frightened me.
—Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Unlike his exhilarated mother, Titus reacted neutrally.
—Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
She was surrounded by exhilarated doctors who had completed the first successful fetal brain surgery two days earlier.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
The video showing Masataka Yoshida’s return to Red Sox camp is charming and sweet, telling the story of an exhausted but exhilarated champion rejoining his American baseball teammates.
—Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
The day of races produced no formal winners or losers — just a lot of exhilarated athletes and boosters.
—Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhilarated
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The title track starts off sounding like gamelan music, then turns into a busy-grooved evocation on finding catharsis by going for a swim at a busy beach, creating her own ecstatic iteration of traditional baptismal blues imagery.Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
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Breakthroughs in reasoning are why many AI experts waxed ecstatic over OpenAI’s release of its o3 and o3 mini models last month.Clint Boulton, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Parents of college students who are home for the holidays are thrilled.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
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That's new, and not everyone is thrilled about it.John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2024
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Marketers are right to be excited by the potential of AI.Forrester, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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You must be excited your film is doing so well.Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Other tribes of music-heads danced through dawn on muddy hillsides, barely sleeping or eating through the driving rain, dazed but giddy to take part in a massive, improbable event.Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
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Our mammoth game is the last one, which just has to make the NFL schedule-makers giddy.Chris Branch, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Exhilarated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhilarated. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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