EXULT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exult mean? 

• EXULT (verb)
  The verb EXULT has 2 senses:

1. feel extreme happiness or elation

2. to express great joy

  Familiarity information: EXULT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXULT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exult    ... he / she / it exults   
Past simple: exulted   
Past participle: exulted   
-ing form: exulting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel extreme happiness or elation

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

be on cloud nine; exult; jump for joy; walk on air

Hypernyms (to "exult" is one way to...):

joy; rejoice (feel happiness or joy)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exult"):

rejoice; triumph; wallow (be ecstatic with joy)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue exult

Derivation:

exultant (joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success)

exultation (a feeling of extreme joy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To express great joy

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exuberate; exult; jubilate; rejoice; triumph

Context example:

Who cannot exult in Spring?

Hypernyms (to "exult" is one way to...):

cheer; cheer up; chirk up (become cheerful)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exult"):

glory (rejoice proudly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue exult over the results of the experiment

Derivation:

exultant (joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success)

exultation (the utterance of sounds expressing great joy)

 Context examples 

"You see, Martin's not seeking culture," Olney exulted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Far from feeling guilty, I rejoiced and exulted in our dangers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At once I exulted and feared; for now, for good or ill, the end was near.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was thrilling and exulting in ways new to him and greater to him than any he had known before.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I stretched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of these sensations; and in the act, I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Beth was there, laying the snowy piles smoothly on the shelves and exulting over the goodly array.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Well, Mr. Knightley, and so you actually saw the letter; well—“It was short—merely to announce—but cheerful, exulting, of course.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And this address seemed to satisfy all the fondest wishes of the mother's heart, for she received him with the most delighted and exulting affection.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)