Exhilarating: meaning, example and synonyms
Exhilaratingadj. Causing intense excitement, energy, and happiness.
Example
For the young physicist, the exhilarating moment came when the faint signal finally rose above the noise after three years of null results.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Synonyms
- thrilling, exciting, invigorating, stirring
- Antonyms
- dull, depressing, tedious, boring
- Memory tip
- Latin hilaris = cheerful: exhilarating makes you hilarious with joy.
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Check yourself: Exhilarating in context
For the young climbers, reaching the summit at dawn was ______: they laughed, shouted, and felt their exhaustion vanish as the sun lit the glaciers below.
Answer: exhilarating. Laughter, shouting and vanishing fatigue show the moment was exhilarating. Counterproductive (self-defeating), ossified (rigid) and desolate (bleak) contradict their joy.
Many first-year students find their initial laboratory discoveries ______, describing a rush of excitement that no lecture had ever given them.
Answer: exhilarating. A rush of excitement means exhilarating. Ossified (rigid), desolate (bleak) and impeccable (flawless) don't describe a feeling of thrill.