单词 | exhilaration |
释义 | exhilaration (once / 3447 pages) n Exhilaration is great joy, and excitement and liveliness! When you ride an ocean wave, hear a favorite song, or have a long and uncontrollable laugh with friends, there's a feeling of exhilaration, an overflow of happiness. Most people have moments of exhilaration (egg-zill-uh-RAY-shun), sometimes during life's big moments, like a graduation or wedding, and often while just walking down the street and feeling great about the day and being alive. And exhilaration is contagious: when you witness someone else's exhilaration, it usually makes you full of warmth and joyousness too. Some synonyms of exhilaration also sound close to it, like "exultation," "exaltation," and "elation." As they say, it's all good. WORD FAMILYexhilaration: exhilarations+/exhilarate: exhilarated, exhilarates, exhilarating, exhilaration/exhilarating: exhilaratingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe experience left me with the exhilaration of life enhanced. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Eclipsed only by the exhilaration of marrying my soulmate, the march was one of the greatest days of my life. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) Cooling in air-tight conditions produces a wild array of colors, and there’s exhilaration in unveiling each piece. Washington Times(Nov 30, 2016) n the feeling of lively and cheerful joy Syn|Hypo|Hyper excitement bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill the swift release of a store of affective force intoxicationexcitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety titillationa tingling feeling of excitement (as from teasing or tickling) joy, joyfulness, joyousness the emotion of great happiness |
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