Jubilant \Ju"bi*lant\, a. [L. jubilans, -antis, p. pr. of
jubilare to shout for joy: cf. F. jubilant. See Jubilate.]
Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant;
exulting. "The jubilant age." --Coleridge.
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While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jubilant
adj 1: joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success;
"rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a
triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: exultant,
exulting, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant]
2: full of high-spirited delight [syn: elated, gleeful, joyful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "jubilant":
bursting with happiness, carried away, cock-a-hoop, crowing,
delighting, ecstatic, elate, elated, enchanted, enraptured,
enravished, entranced, exalted, exultant, exulting, flushed,
freaked out, gloating, high, imparadised, in ecstasies, in heaven,
in high feather, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven,
on cloud nine, overjoyed, overjoyful, possessed, rapt, raptured,
rapturous, ravished, rejoicing, rhapsodic, sent, transported,
triumphal, triumphant, whoop
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
elated, exultant, exulting, gleeful, joyful, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant
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