exhilarating

exhilarating

1. present participle of exhilarate

exhilarating (comparative more exhilarating, superlative most exhilarating)

1. Refreshingly thrilling.
   • 1991, Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin, transl., “Candide, or Concerning Narrative Rapidity”, in Why Read the Classics?, New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2014, →ISBN, page 103:

     What most delights us today in Candide is not the 'conte philosophique', nor its satire, nor the gradual emergence of a morality and vision of the world: instead it is its rhythm. With rapidity and lightness, a succession of mishaps, punishments and massacres races over the page, leaps from chapter to chapter, and ramifies and multiplies without evoking in the reader's emotions anything other than a feeling of an exhilarating and primitive vitality.

   • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘Treehouse Of Horror III’”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 17 October 2016:

     Writing a "Treehouse Of Horror" segment has to be both exhilarating and daunting. It's exhilarating because it affords writers all the freedom in the world.

• exhilarant
• cheering
• gladdening
• stimulating
• enlivening
• See also Thesaurus:blissful

• exhilarating in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exhilarating in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911