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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

thrilling en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

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

Forms

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most thrilling Degree=Sup lexicographic
more thrilling Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

thrillingness · unthrilling · thrillingly

thrilling en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. A thrill.
    • […] my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love […] 1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land:

Forms

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thrillings Number=Plur lexicographic

thrilling en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of thrill
    form of thrill