thrilling
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/
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- Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Verb
thrilling
- present participle of thrill
Adjective
thrilling (comparative more thrilling, superlative most thrilling)
- Causing a feeling of sudden excitement.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […] , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:exciting
Noun
thrilling (plural thrillings)
- A thrill.
- 1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land
- […] my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love […]
- 1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English thrilling. As a noun meaning "thriller", a pseudo-anglicism.
Adjective
thrilling (invariable)
- thrilling
- (relational) thriller
Noun
thrilling m (invariable)
- thriller (film, book etc.)
- thrill