Synonyms of exultation

exultation

noun

as in joy

an elated, joyful feeling

The crowd cheered in exultation when the home team scored.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• joy
• ecstasy
• glee
• elation
• delight
• joyfulness
• exhilaration
• triumph
• intoxication
• gladness
• high
• euphoria
• beatitude
• rapture
• happiness
• bliss
• heaven
• blessedness
• cheerfulness
• ravishment
• blissfulness
• jubilation
• glory
• gayety
• felicity
• elatedness
• pleasure
• mirth
• exuberance
• joyousness
• enjoyment
• paradise
• seventh heaven
• transport
• warm fuzzies
• nirvana
• jubilance
• satisfaction
• jollity
• delectation
• gratification
• rapturousness
• lightheartedness
• cheer
• gaiety
• gleefulness
• merriness
• contentedness
• comfort
• content
• jocundity
• gladsomeness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sorrow
• anguish
• agony
• woe
• desolation
• melancholy
• dejection
• sufferance
• gloom
• depression
• despondency
• blues
• joylessness
• gloominess
• sadness
• hell
• mournfulness
• doldrums
• misery
• plaintiveness
• cheerlessness
• unhappiness
• calamity
• woefulness
• purgatory
• disheartenment
• wretchedness
• desolateness
• downheartedness
• Gehenna
• dispiritedness
• ill-being

Examples of exultation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Describing the warm, fuzzy optimism of an Idles record requires only the most pretentious adjectives — ebullience, exultation, jubilation — words that Idles frontman Joe Talbot would likely laugh at heartily before offering a pint to anyone who said them. —Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2024

Both arms flutter in exultation as the angelic sound majestically rises, puncturing the heavens deeply until perfect silence lands at his hardened feet. —David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024

But there’s no easy shortcut to short-circuit Trump’s comeback, notwithstanding the exultation over Tuesday’s court ruling. —Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023

The new film may begin with a brief, black-and-white remembrance of Enzo as a competitor, grinning with exultation at the wheel. —Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023