EXULTANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exultant mean? 

• EXULTANT (adjective)
  The adjective EXULTANT has 1 sense:

1. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

  Familiarity information: EXULTANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXULTANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

Synonyms:

exultant; exulting; jubilant; prideful; rejoicing; triumphal; triumphant

Context example:

a triumphant shout

Similar:

elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)

Derivation:

exult (to express great joy)

exult (feel extreme happiness or elation)

 Context examples 

And that the strength in me had quieted her and given her confidence, filled me with an exultant joy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Spanish prisoner looked with exultant eyes upon the deep and serried ranks of his countrymen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Williamson, the ex-clergyman, bowed to us with mock politeness, and the bully, Woodley, advanced with a shout of brutal and exultant laughter.

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

This time at least modern weapons prevailed and the great creature, twelve feet from head to foot—phororachus its name, according to our panting but exultant Professor—went down before Lord Roxton's rifle in a flurry of waving feathers and kicking limbs, with two remorseless yellow eyes glaring up from the midst of it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind's eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it—and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Up the long slope rushed ranks and ranks of men exultant, shouting, with waving pennons and brandished arms.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had not been called “Sissy” Van Weyden all my days without reason, and that “Sissy” Van Weyden should be capable of doing this thing was a revelation to Humphrey Van Weyden, who knew not whether to be exultant or ashamed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Fly as they would the fugitives were too slow to escape from the active savages, and from every side in the tangled woods we heard the exultant yells, the twanging of bows, and the crash and thud as ape-men were brought down from their hiding-places in the trees.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One moment Alleyne saw the galley's poop crowded with rushing figures, waving arms, exultant faces; the next it was a blood-smeared shambles, with bodies piled three deep upon each other, the living cowering behind the dead to shelter themselves from that sudden storm-blast of death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In spite of his fear at the reckoning he must expect to pay for what he had done, he could see that it had been an object-lesson to me, and he became more domineering and exultant.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)