Front | exultant |
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Pron | [ɪɡ'zʌltənt] |
Back | 【exultant】 adj.狂欢的,大喜的 The exultant players were dancing on the ground over their team's victory. 欣喜苦狂的球员们为他们的胜利,在球场上跳着舞。 |
Vocab | exultantjoyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
Use the adjective exultant to describe the triumphant feeling you get when you succeed at something. The kids on the Little League team who win the championship game will be exultant. The kid who's elected sixth grade president will feel exultant, and so will a singer who's just given the performance of her lifetime. Exultant describes an excitement that's a combination of pride, happiness, and triumph. The word exultant comes from the Latin exsilire, "to leap up," from the prefix ex-, "up or out," plus salire, "to leap." In other words, when you're exultant, you're jumping for joy. All forms of 'exultant' will appear on average once every 1956 pages. exult exultant exultation exulting exultantly exultingly |
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