[ UK /ɛɡzˈʌltənt/ ]
[ US /ɪɡˈzəɫtənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
    a triumphal success
    a triumphant shout
    rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day
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How To Use exultant In A Sentence

  • The Holy Man, with an air of supreme exhaustion and supreme ecstasy, reclad himself in his white mantle, and the faithful ones wiped their brows, and re-squatting on the ground exultantly vociferated _Allah_ about a hundred times, nodding their heads, and finally changing their cry into _Bou! Without Prejudice
  • The opera houses of Charles Garnier in Paris and Gottfried Semper in Dresden are memorable precisely because their expressive physiognomy is a kind of exultant precis of the spaces and happenings within.
  • The flowers direct the eye upward past a small, brooding view of Toledo - at which point the picture seems to burst into an exultant heavenly space.
  • I can't see why every party newspaper instead finds it necessary to display exultant, triumphant headlines after each election.
  • In the city editor's cubby-hole, Bill Rankin was talking exultantly to his chief. Dear Carl
  • But I just want to indulge in a bit of pure, exultant joy!
  • The young gentleman uttered this exultant sound with mysterious significance.
  • It was a celebratory, sedate, courtly dance: exultant outstretched jumps, falling, turning and an eloquent reflection on the crucifixion.
  • It also means that if all the ‘experts’ rave on about a particular album, I'm on pretty shaky ground if I go overboard criticising it, or at the least, am less than exultant about it.
  • At the core of the Sukkot observance is the recitation of Hallel (psalms sung as expressions of exultant thanks), and the shaking of the lulav and etrog (a bundle of plants symbolizing life, abundance and thanks). Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Expanding Circles Of Thanks
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