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EXULTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
Example:
a triumphant shout
Synonyms:
exultant; exulting; jubilant; prideful; rejoicing; triumphal; triumphant
Classified under:
Similar:
elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb exult
Context examples:
But then, may not I be peculiarly constituted to write? he queried, secretly exulting at the language he had used, his swift imagination throwing the whole scene and atmosphere upon a vast screen along with a thousand other scenes from his life—scenes that were rough and raw, gross and bestial.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He envied Joe, down in the village, rampant, tearing the slats off the bar, his brain gnawing with maggots, exulting in maudlin ways over maudlin things, fantastically and gloriously drunk and forgetful of Monday morning and the week of deadening toil to come.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
