exultant

adjective ex·ul·tant \ ig-ˈzəl-tᵊnt \

Updated on: 15 Apr 2018

Definition of exultant

: filled with or expressing great joy or triumph : jubilant

an exultant cheer

exultant fans

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exultantly

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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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The central government is exultant, since the project which irrigates Beijing was built at vast cost and against some opposition.

— The Economist, "China has built the world’s largest water-diversion project," 5 Apr. 2018
There’s chatter — frenzied and buoyant, discouraged and exultant — in these changes, which suggest endless exchanges among a writer and early readers.

— ben brantley, New York Times, "Tennessee Williams, Restless and Revising," 12 Feb. 2018
But the breakthrough, however fleeting, is exultant.

— nathaniel friedman, Billboard, "I've Never Felt Better In My Life: The Fall's 'The Classical' and Mark E. Smith's Terrible, Glorious Freedom," 26 Jan. 2018
But all are written in Chinese, so virtually nobody from Kazakhstan has a clue to the exultant message.

— andrew higgins, New York Times, "A Visa-Free Zone Welcomes Your Wallet. But Maybe Not Your Beard.," 8 Jan. 2018
Republicans delivered their sweeping plan to an exultant President Donald Trump, who signed it into law Friday.

— jennifer peltz, USA TODAY, "Exes and taxes: How the tax overhaul would alter alimony," 24 Dec. 2017
Among the team’s most exultant fans was Eddie Vedder, the frontman for Pearl Jam.

— daniel m. gold, New York Times, "Review: ‘Let’s Play Two’ Takes Pearl Jam Out to the Ball Game," 28 Sep. 2017
Solo voices, his 22-voice chorus and the 14 period instrumentalists produced a reading of exultant spirituality in which historically informed scholarship and lively re-creative intelligence came together on an intimate scale.

— john von rhein, chicagotribune.com, "Lincoln Center chamber society, Bella Voce off to strong season starts," 25 Oct. 2017
The communiques out of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations were exultant on Monday.

— hannah thoburn, The Atlantic, "Why Russia Won't Help More on North Korea," 12 Sep. 2017

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adjective ex·ul·tant \ ig-ˈzəl-tᵊnt \

Definition of exultant for Students

: very happy and excited

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exultantly

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