athrill

[uh-thril] / əˈθrɪl /

ADJECTIVE

ecstatic

Synonyms

STRONGEST

blissful delirious elated enthusiastic euphoric fervent happy joyful joyous mad overjoyed rapturous rhapsodic thrilled upbeat

STRONG

crazy

WEAK

beatific dreamy enraptured entranced floating flying flying high gone high in exaltation in seventh heaven on cloud nine pleased as punch ravished sent sunny tickled pink tickled to death transported turned on wild

Antonyms

STRONGEST

apathetic depressed down indifferent not happy reasonable sad sorrowful unenthusiastic unexcited unhappy

WEAK

despairing tormented troubled

Example Sentences

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Why could he not have slept on forever, he thought, his whole being athrill with the memory revived by his dreams?

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

Something new, wonderfully, terrifyingly, deliciously new, gripped at her heart and set her whole body athrill and trembling.

From Running Sands by Kauffman, Reginald Wright

The gorgeous pre-Raphaelite pictures had always appealed to her innate artistic sense, and set her nerves athrill with a something she could not analyse.

From For the School Colours by Brazil, Angela

Mervyn realised that his nerves were somewhat athrill as he placed his first step on the path stairway.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

And all the time I was athrill with pride and joy—suffused therewith into imbecility.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

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