Synonyms for exhilarating
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Exciting
exciting, invigorating, thrilling, joyful, mind-blowing, stimulating, joyous, intoxicating, inspiring, heady, impressive, rousing, stirring, bracing, moving, glad, cheerful, distracting, electric, thrilly, exhilarative, exhilarant
Other
gladdening
Definitions
- adj. 1
Refreshingly thrilling.
Example sentences
- exciting Nothing exciting ever seems to happen around here.
- thrilling I couldn’t put it down when it was so thrilling.
- joyful Beautiful fireworks conclude these two joyful days.
- invigorating A sip of invigorating kvass gave him strength.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| exhilarating | rising | |
| exciting | steady | |
| thrilling | rising | |
| joyful | rising | |
| invigorating | rising | |
| gladdening | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- glad1
- 5 letters
- heady2
- 6 letters
- moving2, joyful2, joyous2
- 7 letters
- bracing2, rousing2, thrilly
- 8 letters
- electric3, exciting3, stirring2, cheerful2
- 9 letters
- inspiring3, thrilling2
- 10 letters
- impressive3, gladdening, exhilarant
- 11 letters
- stimulating4, distracting3
- 12 letters
- intoxicating5, invigorating5, exhilarative
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (heady2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- exaltant