Word Meanings - EXHILARATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man. (more info) ex out + hilarare to make merry, hilaris merry, cheerful. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXHILARATE)

• Animate
• Enliven
• Inspirit
• instigate
• quicken
• exhilarate
• embolden
• rouse
• revivify
• cheer
• gladden
• stir
• prompt
• incite
• stimulate
• Wake
• vivify
• invigorate
• inspirit
• excite
• animate
• Gladden
• rejoice
• gratify
• Inspire
• inflame
• imbue
• impel
• encourage
• inhale
• enliven
• breathe in
• infuse

Related words: (words related to EXHILARATE)

• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• INHALENT
  Used for inhaling; as, the inhalent end of a duct. Dana.
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• CHEERER
  One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
• REJOICE
  To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. "O, rejoice beyond a common joy." Shak. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. Ps. xxxi. 7. Syn. To delight; joy; exult; triumph. (more info)
• EMBOLDENER
  One who emboldens.
• INSPIRED
  1. Breathed in; inhaled. 2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. 3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• INHALER
  1. One who inhales. 2. An apparatus for inhaling any vapor or volatile substance, as ether or chloroform, for medicinal purposes. 3. A contrivance to filter, as air, in order to protect the lungs from inhaling damp or cold air, noxious gases, dust,
• INSTIGATE
  To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime. He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. Bp. Warburton. Syn. --
• ANIMATER
  One who animates. De Quincey.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• UPBREATHE
  To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston.