exhilarant

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adjective

Causing exhilaration or pleasure.

“exhilarant drugs”

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectiveexhilarant (comparative more exhilarant, superlative most exhilarant)

comparative more exhilarant · superlative most exhilarant

  1. Causing exhilaration or pleasure.

    exhilarant drugs

    Synonyms: exhilarating, exciting, fun

nounexhilarant (plural exhilarants)

plural exhilarants

  1. Something that exhilarates.

    Synonyms: upper

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveCausing exhilaration or pleasure.

nounSomething that exhilarates.

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Origin

  1. Latinexhilarantis
  2. Englishexhilarant

From Latin exhilarantis. See exhilarate. By surface analysis, ex- + Latin hilar(ō) + -ant.

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Translations

Catalan exhilarant
  • exhilarantexciting joy, mirth, or pleasure
French exhilarant
  • exhilarantexciting joy, mirth, or pleasure
German erfrischend, erheiternd
  • erfrischendexciting joy, mirth, or pleasure
  • erheiterndexciting joy, mirth, or pleasure
Spanish estimulante, hilarante
  • estimulanteexciting joy, mirth, or pleasure
  • hilaranteexciting joy, mirth, or pleasure
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Chicago

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