Exultant
adjective
Showing or feeling a lot of joy and happiness.
She felt exultant after winning the tennis match.

Often appears as...
- exultant cry
- exultant victory
Usage tips
Approving
adjective
Showing or feeling a lot of joy and happiness.
She felt exultant after winning the tennis match.

Often appears as...
- exultant cry
- exultant victory
Usage tips
Approving
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Emotional Intensity
Use 'exultant' for extremely strong feelings of happiness, not just being pleased or content.

The fans were exultant when their team won the championship.
Celebratory Context
'Exultant' is often used in contexts of achievement, success, or victory.

The exultant graduates threw their caps high into the air.
Visible Expression
An 'exultant' person typically shows happiness openly through body language or facial expressions.

Her exultant smile lit up the room.
Emotional Intensity
Use 'exultant' for extremely strong feelings of happiness, not just being pleased or content.

The fans were exultant when their team won the championship.
Celebratory Context
'Exultant' is often used in contexts of achievement, success, or victory.

The exultant graduates threw their caps high into the air.
Visible Expression
An 'exultant' person typically shows happiness openly through body language or facial expressions.

Her exultant smile lit up the room.
Emotional Intensity
Use 'exultant' for extremely strong feelings of happiness, not just being pleased or content.

The fans were exultant when their team won the championship.
Celebratory Context
'Exultant' is often used in contexts of achievement, success, or victory.

The exultant graduates threw their caps high into the air.
Visible Expression
An 'exultant' person typically shows happiness openly through body language or facial expressions.

Her exultant smile lit up the room.
Quote examples
Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical.

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George Matthew Adams
American Editor
The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

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Brian Sutton-Smith
American Psychologist
To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.

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Lukas Forchhammer
Danish Musician
We're surprised, ecstatic, vibrant and exultant about the success of '7 Years.

Quote examples
Elvis Mitchell
American Critic
The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical.

Quote examples
George Matthew Adams
American Editor
The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

Quote examples
Brian Sutton-Smith
American Psychologist
To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.

Quote examples
Lukas Forchhammer
Danish Musician
We're surprised, ecstatic, vibrant and exultant about the success of '7 Years.

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