thrilling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

Verb

thrilling

1. present participle and gerund of thrill

Adjective

thrilling (comparative more thrilling, superlative most thrilling)

1. Causing a feeling of sudden excitement.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […] , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:exciting

Noun

thrilling (plural thrillings)

1. A thrill.
   • 1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land:

     […] my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love […]

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English thrilling. As a noun meaning "thriller", a pseudo-anglicism.

Adjective

thrilling (invariable)

1. thrilling
2. (relational) thriller

Noun

thrilling m (invariable)

1. thriller (film, book etc.)
2. thrill