Word Meanings - EXHILARATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening. -- Ex*hil"a*ra`ting*ly, adv.

Related words: (words related to EXHILARATING)

• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• CHEERER
  One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
• CHEERFULNESS
  Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
• CHEERLESS
  Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser. Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
• CHEER
  chère, fr. LL. cara face, Gr. , L. cerebrum brain, G. hirn, and E. 1. The face; the countenance or its expression. "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif. 2. Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart. Be of good cheer. Matt. ix. 2. The parents . . . fled
• CHEERRY
  Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.
• CHEERFUL
  Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing. To entertain a cheerful disposition. Shak. The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the
• GLADDEN
  To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate. A secret pleasure gladdened all that saw him. Addison. (more info) Etym:
• CHEERFULLY
  In a cheerful manner, gladly.
• CHEERILY
  In a cheery manner.
• CHEERLY
  Gay; cheerful. Shak.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.