Exhilarating

Quick meaning: Exhilarating is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of exhilarate.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of exhilarate.

More Meanings

1. Refreshingly thrilling.

Example Sentences

Writing a "Treehouse of Horror" segment has to be both exhilarating and daunting. It's exhilarating because it affords writers all the freedom in the world.

"Like many other large resorts, the town operated electric tramways, with open-topped cars. The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit."

The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.

Mrs. Palmer added, "that this news, though it could scarcely be called exhilarating, had had such an effect on her elderly friends, that they had determined to set out to Bath, and, when rested, proceed thence to Exeter, in order to be nearer the place where the vessel was expected, and to be a support to Lord Meersbrook, in case of the worst."

Synonyms for exhilarating

Depending on context, synonyms include exhilarant, gladdening, stimulating, enlivening, absorbing, alacrifying.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exciting, stimulating, invigorating, elating, thrilling, stimulatory.

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