exultant
adjective/ɪɡˈzʌltənt/
/ɪɡˈzʌltənt/
(formal)- exultant (at something) feeling or showing that you are very proud or happy, especially because of something exciting that has happened synonym triumphant
- The fans were exultant at their team’s victory.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin exsultant- ‘exulting’, from the verb exsultare, frequentative of exsilire ‘leap up’, from ex- ‘out, upward’ + salire ‘to leap’.
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