: causing a feeling of great excitement or happiness
a thrilling discovery
a thrilling performance
… flashes into the end zone to give the Rams the winning touchdown in the most thrilling Super Bowl finish ever.—
Rick Reilly
Rick Reilly
thrillingly
adverb
Who, in fact, are the good guys and who are the bad guys in the dramas that unfold here so thrillingly?
—Marie Winn
Marie Winn
… this is a powerful and thrillingly strange movie …
—Terrence Rafferty
Terrence Rafferty
Examples of thrilling in a Sentence
a thrilling adventure movie
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Taryn Finley, refinery29.com, 10 July 2025
Castro will bring his thrilling live show to 27 major cities across the world, including New York, Paris, and Madrid.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2025
The event started on Thursday with some very thrilling results.
—Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
But those first two seasons are really timeless — thrilling, ambitious, outrageous to this day.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
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“Thrilling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thrilling. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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