THRILLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrilling mean? 

• THRILLING (adjective)
  The adjective THRILLING has 2 senses:

1. causing a surge of emotion or excitement

2. causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock

  Familiarity information: THRILLING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRILLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing a surge of emotion or excitement

Synonyms:

electrifying; thrilling

Context example:

a thrilling performer to watch

Similar:

exciting (creating or arousing excitement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock

Context example:

a thrilling wind blew off the frozen lake

Similar:

stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)

 Context examples 

These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A big weekend will be due for you December 14-15, when Uranus and Jupiter will be connected, working to create a thrilling experience for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She passed down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see what passed in the hall beneath.

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

At such times love was joy to him, a wild, keen- thrilling satisfaction.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The book was closed on his forefinger, and before he turned he was thrilling to the first new impression, which was not of the girl, but of her brother's words.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Jo had saved some bonbons for the little girls, and they soon subsided, after hearing the most thrilling events of the evening.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Besides, I wished to touch no deep-thrilling chord—to open no fresh well of emotion in his heart: my sole present aim was to cheer him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind.

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

There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)