THRILLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrilled mean? 

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

1. feeling intense pleasurable excitement

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRILLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling intense pleasurable excitement

Similar:

excited (in an aroused state)

 Context examples 

Uranus is known to bring unexpected developments, and this time, you will be thrilled with the news you hear.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Jane! Jane! he said, in such an accent of bitter sadness it thrilled along every nerve I had; you don't love me, then?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was not thrilled nor stirred by what she had done.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Not all Mars watchers are thrilled with the idea of a global dust storm, which can adversely affect ongoing missions.

(Dust Storms Linked to Gas Escape from Mars Atmosphere, NASA)

and one listener was so thrilled by the tender invitation that she longed to say she did know the land, and would joyfully depart thither whenever he liked.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She stood quite still, before the Doctor, and spoke with an earnestness that thrilled me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How this phrase thrilled through me!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It took the place of like, which latter had been the highest feeling that thrilled him in his intercourse with the gods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As he came into the circle of dim light which enables me to see him more clearly I was thrilled with horror at his appearance.

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

My first feeling of fear had passed away, and I thrilled now with a keener zest than I had ever enjoyed when we were the defenders of the law instead of its defiers.

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