• Thrilling

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

    Verb

    thrilling
    1. Present participle of thrill

    Full definition of thrilling

    Adjective

    thrilling

    1. Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
      • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 5, He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, …, the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

    Synonyms

    Noun

    thrilling

    (plural thrillings)
    1. A thrill.
      • William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land... my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love ...----
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