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Definition: Exhilarating |
ExhilaratingAdjective1. Making lively and cheerful; "the exhilarating effect of mountain air". 2. Making lively and joyful. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "exhilarating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: ExhilaratingSynonyms: elating (adj), stimulating (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating; cardiac, cardiacal; pleasing; palmy. |
Physical Insensibility | Anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Exhilarating |
| English words defined with "exhilarating": elation ♦ Glad on 't ♦ pugnacious ♦ rough ♦ stimulating. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Exhilarating but -- !. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sailing action" by Frank P.J. Van Haalen Commentary: "Exhilarating sailing action in Holland, The Netherlands." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Baudelaire | What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This is always exhilarating and sublime |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Despite a exhilarating growth in the PC arena, the growth in the printer market has been limited by increased adoption of network printing in the business user group. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Exhilarating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 57.93% of the time. "Exhilarating" is used about 145 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 57.93% | 84 | 36,109 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.07% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 145 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
exhilarating | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "exhilarating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | منعش (animating, bracing, cool, cooling, fresh, invigorative, reanimating, recreating, recreative, refreshing, restorative, resuscitating, resuscitative, reviving, stimulating, stimulative). (various references) | |
Chinese | 兴奋 (Effervesce, Effervesced, Effervescing, Exaltation, Excitatory, Excitement, Exhilarate, Exhilarated, heady, mind-blowing, thrill, thrilled, thrilling, tingle). (various references) | |
Czech | radostný (blithe, cheerful, cheery, festive, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, rorty), povznášející, osvìžující (bracing, recreative, refreshing, refrigerant, restful), fascinující (compulsive, enthralling, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, inspiring, intriguing, mesmeric, witching), živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, mercurial, perky, pleasant, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | |
German | erheiternd. (various references) | |
Greek | συναρπαστικός (exciting, gripping, thrilling), συναρπαστικό. (various references) | |
Hungarian | felvidító (cheering, cheery), üdítő (bland, bracing, fine, refreshing). (various references) | |
Italian | esilarante (exhilarant, side-spliting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 爽快 (refreshing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうかい (blue waters, dragging for mines, emotionally uplifting, general meeting, grand opening, refreshing, stirring, sweeping the sea for mines, this world's sudden changes). (various references) | |
Korean | 원기를 돋굼. (various references) | |
Manx | yrjee (elevating, ring up), troggalagh (absorbing, communicable, contractible, elevating, infectious, raising; builder). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | exhilaratingay.(various references) | |
Romanian | înveselitor (mirth-provoking). (various references) | |
Russian | возбужденный (ablaze, agitated, aglow, agog, astir, excited, feverish, heated, hectic, het up, narked, overwrought, revved up), веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji stimuliše, koji razveseljava. (various references) | |
Turkish | neşelendirici (cheerful, heartening, upliftintg), canlandırıcı (animator, bracing, crispy, enlivening, hearty, invigorating, refreshing, regenerative, restorative, stiffener, stimulus, tonic, uplifting). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | điều làm vui vẻ (exhilarant, exhilarative), điều làm hồ hởi (exhilarant, exhilarative). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "exhilarating": exhilaratingly. (additional references) | |
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"Exhilarating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eggcilerating, ehilarating, enhilarating, exhilararting, exhilarationg, exhilerating, exhiliarating, exhilirating, exhillarating, exhillerating, exhillirating, exhirarating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exhilarating" (pronounced igzi"lerā'ting) |
| 6 | -l er ā' t i ng | accelerating, decelerating, tolerating. |
| 5 | -er ā' t i ng | collaborating, commemorating, cooperating, corroborating, decorating, degenerating, deliberating, deteriorating, elaborating, evaporating, exaggerating, exasperating, exonerating, generating, inaugurating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, invigorating, liberating, moderating, nonoperating, obliterating, operating, proliferating, recuperating, redecorating, regenerating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, reverberating, saturating, separating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, accentuating, accommodating, abbreviating, abdicating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, alienating, alleviating, allocating, alternating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, coordinating, culminating, cultivating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decimating, dedicating, delegating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, designating, detonating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, discriminating, disintegrating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, exacerbating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, humiliating, hydrogenating, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, incapacitating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, irritating, isolating, laminating, legislating, levitating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, motivating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nitrating, nominating, obviating, officiating, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, permeating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, reevaluating, regulating, rehabilitating, rejuvenating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resonating, resuscitating, retaliating, rotating, salivating, segregating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, underestimating, understating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, appointing, abutting, accenting, accepting, abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-r-t-x" | |
-3 letters: antiglare, earthling, genitalia, haltering, lariating, lathering, retailing. | |
-4 letters: aerating, agential, airthing, alerting, alginate, altering, anthelia, anthelix, antheral, argental, atheling, earthing, exalting, exhalant, exhaling, gainlier, geranial, hairline, hearting, hetairai, hireling, inertial, ingather, integral, litharge, narghile, nargileh, relating, relaxant, relaxing, retaxing, retiling, ringtail, tanglier, thirlage, thirling, tinglier, trailing, triangle, triaxial. | |
-5 letters: airline, airting, aligner, alright. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-r-t-x" | |
+2 letters: exhilaratingly. | |
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