exhilarate
4 synonyms and 2 antonyms for exhilarate, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To fill someone with happiness and energy.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Antonyms
Etymology
Comes from Latin exhilarō (“to delight, to gladden, to make merry”), made up of ex- (“out, away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) and hilarō (“to cheer, to gladden”), which came from hilaris (“cheerful, light-hearted, lively”), from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”), from ἵλαος (hílaos, “grac...
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