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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
  • Seeing a shark underwater when scuba diving is an exhilarating moment.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 26 July 2026
  • The action today was some of the most exhilarating racing the Tour has witnessed for decades, and surely cements today’s format as the future of the final stage.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 July 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
  • For Chicago White Sox rookie slugger Munetaka Murakami, Sunday was a celebration of the most joyous kind.
    — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 26 July 2026
  • The joyous event is a tradition spanning over half a century.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
Definition of joyous
Verb
  • Retailers began selling products such as delta-8 and THCA flower, which can produce intoxicating effects similar to cannabis.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 31 July 2026
  • Chawinga thumped her chest with pride after scoring her country’s first-ever WAFCON goal, which set off an intoxicating remainder of the match.
    — Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 28 July 2026
Definition of intoxicating
Adjective
  • Here, too, there were echoes of Keegan’s blissful early days, when queues snaked outside the stadium hours before kick-off and every victory felt like alchemy.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • Cataldi retired in 2022, at the end of an uncomfortably blissful year in which the Phillies made the World Series and the Eagles went to the Super Bowl.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
Definition of blissful
Adjective
  • However, exhibitors are positively euphoric about the prospect of two massively popular movies to propel the typically slow month of August.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 July 2026
  • The animus of a euphoric if sometimes unhealthy relationship to art and work helps explain the breakneck pace of Charli’s output since 2024’s Brat punted the longtime pop star into international celebrity status.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Definition of euphoric
Adjective
  • But the Deadheads also evince an honest yearning for something that’s tribal, primitive, sacred, ancient, shamanic, ecstatic.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 July 2026
  • Produced by Meath and Sanborn, the album is said to pair environmental dread and personal upheaval with ecstatic dance music.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 21 July 2026
Definition of ecstatic
Adjective
  • This week’s rapturous After Dark selection also reminded me of something hopeful a dear friend said recently.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
  • Or Ada, the focus of Desacroux’s ardor and obsession after a rapturous night five years prior?
    — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
Definition of rapturous

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