'Exhilarated' definitions:
Definition of 'exhilarated'
From: WordNet
adjective
Made joyful; "the sun and the wind on his back made him feel exhilarated--happy to be alive" [syn: gladdened, exhilarated]
Definition of 'Exhilarated'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'exhilarated'
From: GCIDE
- exhilarated \exhilarated\ adj. elated, in high spirits, and envigorated. Opposite of dejected.
- Syn: gladdened, happy. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'exhilarated'
From: 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