exultantadj.
/ɛɡˈzʌltənt/ Exulting, triumphantly joyful.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [adjective]
hightlyOE
joyousc1305
jubilosec1450
gratulant1471
rejoicingc1475
rejoiceful1538
exultativec1550
exultivec1550
cock-a-hoop1564
insolent1589
triumphant1597
elated1615
exultant1653
elate1702
exulting1757
jubilant1784
zip-a-dee-doo-dah1945
1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix ii. 42 With such exultant sympathy and joy.
a1745 W. Broome On Death 156 The Sun..starts exultant, and renews the day.
1844 Catholic Weekly Instructor 127 The wild exultant cry.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. iv. 42 The fierce exultant delight to which he was moved by the idea of perpetual vengeance.
Derivatives
eˈxultantly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [adverb]
rejoicingly?1554
cock-a-hoopa1616
in triumpha1616
exultingly1661
triumphantly1791
jubilantly1868
exultantly1883
1883 K. W. Hamilton in Harper's Mag. 846/2 Margaret's heart swelled exultantly.
1885 Manch. Examiner 7 Aug. 5/2 It was exultantly proclaimed that the war with Afghanistan would only cost six millions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1653- to ride on a person's stomach
- to ride on anchor
- to ride on maying
- to ride on the back of
- to ride on the rigging
- to ride on the rigging of
- to ride one in, on, or with the snaffle
- to ride one's hobby
- to ride one's hobby-horse
- to ride one's hobbyhorse
- to ride one's luck
- to ride or go to scale
- to ride or sit bodkin
- to ride out
- to ride over
- to ride pillion
- to ride point
- to ride quarantine
- to ride reformades
- to ride roughshod
- to ride rusty
- to ride sail into the sunset
- to ride sail off into the sunset
- to ride short
- to ride shotgun