| 单词 | exultant |
| 释义 | exultant (once / 1956 pages) adj Use the adjective exultant to describe the triumphant feeling you get when you succeed at something. The kids who win the Little League championship game will be exultant. The kid who's elected sixth grade president will feel exultant, and so will a singer who's just given the performance of her lifetime. Exultant describes an excitement that's a combination of pride, happiness, and triumph. The word exultant comes from the Latin exsilire, "to leap up," from the prefix ex-, "up or out," plus salire, "to leap." In other words, when you're exultant, you're jumping for joy. WORD FAMILYexultant: exultantly+/exult: exultant, exultation, exulted, exulting, exults/exultation: exultations/exulting: exultingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe deputy leader of France’s right-wing National Front Party, historically seen as ultra-nationalist and anti-Semitic, was exultant as well. Washington Post(Nov 17, 2016) Half the country is exultant because Donald Trump has promised to undo everything Obama has done over the past eight years. Washington Post(Nov 14, 2016) “Rock and roll,” Mr. Cocker says, exultant, after the song seems to have come to an end. New York Times(Nov 14, 2016) adj joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success Syn exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant elated exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits |
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