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[ UK /ɛɡzˈʌltənt/ ]
[ US /ɪɡˈzəɫtənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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