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Exhilarated definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXHIL'ARATED, pp. Enlivened; animated;; cheered; gladdened; made joyous or jovial.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: made joyful; "the sun and the wind on his back made him feel exhilarated--happy to be alive" [syn: gladdened, exhilarated]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Exhilarate Ex*hil"a*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhilarated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exilarating.] [L. exhilaratus, p. p. of exhilarare to gladden; ex out + hilarare to make merry, hilaris merry, cheerful. See Hilarious.] To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are exhilarated by something, it makes you feel very happy and excited. (FORMAL) He felt strangely exhilarated by the brisk, blue morning... ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

agog, animated, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, bursting, carried away, charmed, cheerful, cheery, comfortable, content, contented, cozy, delighted, easy, ebullient, effervescent, elated, energized, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, excited, favorably impressed with, fired, flushed, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, gratified, happy, high, hopeful, hopped up, impassioned, in clover, in good spirits, in high spirits, inflamed, intrigued, invigorated, irrepressible, keyed up, lathered up, laughing, manic, moved, of good cheer, optimistic, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, radiant, ready to burst, reanimated, recharged, recreated, refreshed, renewed, revived, riant, rosy, roused, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfied, smiling, sold on, sparkling, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, sunny, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, tingling, tingly, turned-on, whipped up, winsome, worked up, wrought up, yeasty