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adjective

as in exhilarating

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verb

present participle of elate
as in exciting
to fill with great joy the winning of the state basketball championship elated the whole town

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Recent Examples of elating
Verb
This helped convince the administration to shift to their side, elating students, especially Simpson. — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elating
  1. exhilarating
  2. exciting
  3. joyous
  4. intoxicating
  5. blissful
  6. euphoric
  7. ecstatic
  8. rapturous
Adjective
  • But the real exhilarating and exultant joy is that of the chase — two very different men forced on the run.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Summer also brings opportunities to hike across glaciers and explore Eyjafjallajökull by snowmobile, offering an exhilarating way to experience this untamed terrain firsthand.
    — Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of exhilarating
Verb
  • Major Wilson, 17, has been around horses most of his life and now spends much of his time helping younger riders get ready, showing them how to saddle their horses without exciting them.
    — Jhair Romero, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For Harrington and her husband Dante, the thought of triplets was shocking but exciting all the same.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Definition of exciting
Adjective
  • Baby Jessica was a crazy story of a little girl falling down a well and eventually being rescued, the event really brought the country together and her rescue was a joyous moment for the country.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • After hoping to make the team, Fauthoux didn’t receive the joyous phone calls her peers did from the French head coach and general manager last weekend.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of joyous
Verb
  • Congress approved a measure as part of its government funding bill in November 2025, initially giving companies until this November to comply with new restrictions on intoxicating hemp products that had been allowed under the 2018 farm bill.
    — Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Some of the biggest stars at this year’s Venice Film Festival won’t be the famous faces walking the red carpet, but the wildly high-profile subjects of documentaries that range from intoxicating to grippingly urgent.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of intoxicating
Adjective
  • The interiors are just as blissful, with terra-cotta walls and smooth, wooden floor-to-ceiling wardrobes adding warmth to pale stone floors and marble bathrooms.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
  • There’s also a lovely six-room day spa and wellness center, where the relaxation room with a balcony overlooking the Rockies is as blissful as the treatments themselves.
    — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of blissful
Adjective
  • And at the end of it all, a euphoric fan base, tipsy with its sudden reversal of fortune, belted out a 1976 Abba song in South Florida.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The collection of minor hits and near-misses from the 1960s blended rough edges and euphoric hooks.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of euphoric
Adjective
  • The film embodies its devotion to ecstatic truth being as valid as documentary truth with a full-bodied commitment.
    — Marshall Shaffer, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The result was an eruption of buoyant experimentation, blending the organic and electronic with ecstatic melodies and avant-garde textures.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of ecstatic
Adjective
  • Martin McDonagh‘s Wild Horse Nine launched on the Lido this morning with the filmmakers and cast getting a rapturous welcome at the press conference following this morning’s press screenings.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026
  • But if the awards season goes as the streamer plans, a journey that began in Cannes with a rapturous standing ovation, could end with Los Javis clasping some golden statues.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of rapturous

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“Elating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elating. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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