exhilarant

[ ig-zil-er-uhnt ]

adjective

1. exhilarating.

noun

1. something that exhilarates.

exhilarant

/ ɪɡˈzɪlərənt /

adjective

1. exhilarating; invigorating

noun

1. something that exhilarates

Word History and Origins

Origin of exhilarant¹

1795–1805; < Latin exhilarant- (stem of exhilarāns ), present participle of exhilarāre to gladden. See exhilarate, -ant

Example Sentences

The excitement of his quest made him reckless and the stuff served as an exhilarant, though he had not yet begun to seriously feel its effects.

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I’ve had many a plunge overboard off the California coast that shocked me more than that “natural shower bath” did, but never a one with so exhilarant a reaction.

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For months it had haunted him in his idle moments, inspiring him with vague and exhilarant emotions.

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The proper hour for the absorption of that delicious exhilarant is at eleven in the forenoon, and then but two glasses at the most should be taken.

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The idea of a train of cars flying across the country had haunted us in many and many a toilsome march; and now to know that such was to bear us over the distance that yet intervened between us and our homes, and to hear its shrill greeting, and to catch sight of its glaring Cyclops-eye, all this was indeed exhilarant.

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