exhilarated• Our walk to the waterfall left us tired but exhilarated.• Now that he was committed to a course of action he felt exhilarated.• The first time I flew a planealone, I felt both exhilarated and scared.• She felt exhilarated by her new sense of power.• It throbbed with a tender almost exhilaratedfatigue.• Instead, I made my way back along the sand, watching some evidently exhilaratedsurfers.
Originexhilarated
(1500-1600)Latin past participle of exhilarare, from hilarus; → HILARIOUS