[
UK
/ɛɡzˈʌltənt/
]
[ US /ɪɡˈzəɫtənt/ ]
[ US /ɪɡˈzəɫtənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
a triumphal success
a triumphant shout
rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day
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
- Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
- Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, in exultant recognition of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, embodied the spirit of that nostalgic period. Responsible Nationhood
- Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive. The Shadow of the Torturer
- The exultant crowds were dancing in the streets.
- The normally exultant cheers of a vast Scottish Grand National crowd were muted because the splendour of a truly great race was bought at a very dear price.
- The play opened last January to exultant ovations.
- But beneath the exultant mood, trouble was brewing. Times, Sunday Times
- Ranged before the exultant children's minister was a rapt host of 700 local officials who are extending her childcare empire across the country.
- The machine moves steadily and inexorably through cutting and tunnel, over viaducts and under bridges, exultantly ignoring sun and storm alike.