exultantadj.
/ɛɡˈzʌltənt/ Exulting, triumphantly joyful.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [adjective]
hightlyOE
joyousc1305
jubilosec1450
gratulant1471
rejoicingc1475
rejoiceful1538
exultativec1550
exultivec1550
cock-a-hoop1564
insolent1589
triumphant1597
elated1615
exultant1653
elate1702
exulting1757
jubilant1784
zip-a-dee-doo-dah1945
1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix ii. 42 With such exultant sympathy and joy.
a1745 W. Broome On Death 156 The Sun..starts exultant, and renews the day.
1844 Catholic Weekly Instructor 127 The wild exultant cry.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. iv. 42 The fierce exultant delight to which he was moved by the idea of perpetual vengeance.
Derivatives
eˈxultantly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [adverb]
rejoicingly?1554
cock-a-hoopa1616
in triumpha1616
exultingly1661
triumphantly1791
jubilantly1868
exultantly1883
1883 K. W. Hamilton in Harper's Mag. 846/2 Margaret's heart swelled exultantly.
1885 Manch. Examiner 7 Aug. 5/2 It was exultantly proclaimed that the war with Afghanistan would only cost six millions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1653- to make latins
- to make lavish
- to make leap year of
- to make leg bail
- to make leg-payments
- to make legpayments
- to make let force
- to make life a misery
- to make light of
- to make light work of
- to make like
- to make like a paper doll, and cut out
- to make like a welshman's hose
- to make litter of
- to make little of
- to make little on
- to make little phrase about
- to make little political sense
- to make little way
- to make long sermon
- to make love
- to make love, not war
- to make maistrice
- to make manner to
- to make manred