Exhilarate

Quick meaning: Exhilarate is a verb meaning (transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.

Meaning

(transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To excite, to thrill.

Example Sentences

Good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates the drinker.

Returning to their desks at the beginning of April 1966, exhilarated by the size of the Labour majority, Ministers found that there had been no improvement in the economic outlook while they had been away; indeed it had grown worse.

[A]lcohol, as all the world knows, or should know, does not nourish, but only stimulates,—exhilarates if you will, but exhilarates as fire exhilarates! Would carbon or any other combustible exhilarate only to burn up, consume, and destroy?

I slept soundly, and without feeling the least uneasiness, and am a great deal better this morning; neither do I find that the henbane has affected my head, which, from the great effect it had on me,—exhilarating me to the most extraordinary degree, and yet keeping me sleepy,—I feared it would.

Word Forms

• exhilarates
• exhilarating
• exhilarated

Synonyms for exhilarate

Depending on context, synonyms include blissen, enliven, light up, stimulate, arouse, awaken.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thrill, exalt, cheer, rejoice, elate, electrify.

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