Thrilling

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Piercing; penetrating.
  • That thrills or stirs with subtle permeating emotion or sensation, as of pleasure, pain, horror, wonder, or the like: as, a thrilling adventure; a thrilling experience.
  • noun. In crystallography, a compound or twin crystal consisting of three united crystals. See twin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving.
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  • verb. Present participle of thrill.
  • adjective. Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
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  • adjective. causing a surge of emotion or excitement
  • adjective. causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock
  • Word Usage
    "Now that would have been what I called thrilling, real thrilling, especially if he jumped or grew red, or white, or stammered, or stopped short, or anything to show that he'd seen us -- and cared."
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