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exultant

UK/ɪɡˈzʌl.tənt/US/ɪɡˈzʌl.tənt/
adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,034 of 15,258neutral

Exultant means filled with triumphant joy. An exultant crowd.

The triumph is part of it, so nobody is exultant about a quiet pleasure. The Latin behind it means leaping up, which is exactly what an exultant crowd does.

Definitions of exultant

  1. 1adjectiveexultantFilled with triumphant joy.C1

    “The exultant noise from the ground could be heard a mile away.”

exultant is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin exsultans comes from exsultare, to leap up, from ex plus saltare, to jump.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *sel-

  2. Latin

    exsultāns

  3. English, today

    exultant

Built from

  • exsultō · Latin — rejoice; boast

From Latin exsultāns, present participle of exsultō (“rejoice; boast”). See also exult.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

exultant in the wild

  • Always a sort of pathetic and at the same time exultant strain rises....

    Extravaganza

  • In an exultant extended guitar solo, Troy Donockley sounds like Mike Oldfield.

    Ravenchild

  • Stereogum wrote "Sonically, the song follows an opposite trajectory, building from eerie metallic clattering and mournful whispers to an exultant explosion of guitar and saxophone.

    Happy (Mitski song)

  • Rangsan's style has been described as "exultant post-modernism, architectural pastiche in which styles and eras are thrown together without any signs of restraint".

    Rangsan Torsuwan

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the exsultō family

exultant

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