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Definition of Exultant
1. Adjective. Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success. "A triumphant shout"
Similar to: Elated
Derivative terms: Exult, Exult, Jubilance, Jubilancy, Jubilate, Pridefulness, Triumph, Triumph, Triumph
Definition of Exultant
1. a. Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly.
Definition of Exultant
1. Adjective. very happy, especially at someone else's defeat or failure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exultant
1. exulting [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exultant
Literary usage of Exultant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1861)
"CECIL'S exultant COMMENTS UPON IT. — REJOICING OF THE HOUSE. — THEY TENDER THEIR
THANKS TO THE QUEEN IN A BODY. — HER MAJESTY'S REPLY. ..."
2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"... whilst observing, too, what—to their eyes — seemed the desperate plight of
the garrison, there swept through the camps, French and Eng- exultant lish, ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"From thy strong city-gates, on to the fray " exultant go! Assail the Phrygian
chiefs "Who tent them by thy beauteous river's marge, "And burn their painted ..."
4. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"exultant pride soon banish sorrow, Smiles chase tears away to-morrow. To arms 1 &c.
Advance ;hc flr.g of Dixie 1 fcc. "Article First. ..."
5. War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis: Consisting of Observations by Henry Stuart Foote (1866)
"Tl indiscreetly exultant over it, and the North indignant.—Att certain Persons
in the South to bring about the reopening of t can Slave-trade. ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"About whom, the exultant starry fires Dance nimbly round in everlasting gyres.
For this sense of the third and fourth verses, which we think the words will ..."
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