Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of thrill
comparative more thrilling · superlative most thrilling
- Causing a feeling of sudden excitement.
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
plural thrillings
- A thrill.
[…] my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love […]
1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecausing a surge of emotion or excitement
adjectivecausing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with thrilling
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