: causing a feeling of great excitement or happiness
a thrilling discovery
a thrilling performance
… flashes into the end zone to give the Rams the winning touchdown in the most thrilling Super Bowl finish ever.—
Rick Reilly
Rick Reilly
thrillingly
adverb
Who, in fact, are the good guys and who are the bad guys in the dramas that unfold here so thrillingly?
—Marie Winn
Marie Winn
… this is a powerful and thrillingly strange movie …
—Terrence Rafferty
Terrence Rafferty
Examples of thrilling in a Sentence
a thrilling adventure movie
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Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
Pretending to apply makeup with toys, or occasionally smearing some real makeup on with adult supervision, can be a healthy way for kids to explore that idea—and a fun, even thrilling way to assert their sense of self.
—Faran Krentcil, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks have energized basketball fans in New York City with a thrilling playoff run over the past several weeks.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 13 May 2025
To fans, Fielder is television’s greatest anthropologist, his work a thrilling exploration of our worst and weirdest impulses.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 May 2025
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“Thrilling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thrilling. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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