thrilling
English
Pronunciation
Verb
thrilling
Adjective
thrilling (comparative more thrilling, superlative most thrilling)
- Causing a feeling of sudden excitement.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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
- See also Thesaurus:exciting
Noun
thrilling (plural thrillings)
- 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 […]
- William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English thrilling.
Adjective
thrilling (invariable)
Noun
thrilling m (uncountable)
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