Definition of exultant
:filled with or expressing great joy or triumph :jubilant
- an exultant cheer
- exultant fans
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Examples of exultant in a Sentence
The crowd let out an exultant cheer.
Researchers are exultant over the new discovery.
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Sweets are thrust into the mouths of exultant opposition politicians as the cameras look on.
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Exultant armies and militias now occupy the ground once held by the caliphate.
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At first tentative about her sexual identity, Corrigan’s Alison gets one of the musical’s most endearing numbers, an exultant ode to her new love, Joan (the terrific Kally Duling).
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Romero said of that moment of achievement that was neither joyful nor exultant.
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But look closer: The exultant vitality that made this woman the warrior queen of the dance floor is gone.
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Saudi Arabia signals curbs will be rolled into next year Oil market attention shifts to potential oversupply in 2018 When Khalid Al-Falih arrived at Davos in late January, the Saudi oil minister was exultant.
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As a kind of human pace car, Timberlake set a goofy, exultant tone.
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The whole area is a vast, perpetual, swirling technorave, 100,000 exultant electronica fans gathered from all over the world to pay homage to the 20th century’s supremely influential band.
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First Known Use of exultant
1653
exultant Synonyms
Synonyms
cock-a-hoop, crank [chiefly dialect], crowing, exulting, glorying, jubilant, prideful, proud, rejoicing, triumphantRelated Words
ecstatic, elated, euphoric; arrogant, boastful, cocky; conquering, victorious, winningNear Antonyms
crestfallen, defeated, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited, downcastEXULTANT Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of exultant for English Language Learners
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: very happy and excited
EXULTANT Defined for Kids
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ex·ul·tant
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Definition of exultant for Students
:very happy and excited
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