Jubilant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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