Exhilarate

//ɪɡˈzɪləɹeɪt//

Definitions

verbexhilarates · exhilarating · exhilarated

1
To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.
Good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates the drinker.
Similar
blissen enliven light up
2
To excite, to thrill.
[A]lcohol, as all the world knows, or should know, does not nourish, but only stimulates,—exhilarates if you will, but exhilarates as fire exhilarates! Would carbon or any other combustible exhilarate only to burn up, consume, and destroy?
Similar
electrify work up

Word Origin

From Latin exhilarō (“to delight, to gladden, to make merry”), from ex- (“out, away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) + hilarō (“to cheer, to gladden”), from hilaris (“cheerful, light-heart...

Explore more words in the dictionaryWord of the Day

Translations

Select a language to see translations

Lekhori