What's the difference between ecstatic and exhilarated?

Ecstatic


Definition:

  • (n.) Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.
  • (n.) Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.
  • (n.) An enthusiast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Businesses will be ecstatic at today's decision because the Games will bring a colossal one-off commercial boost to the entire country," said the group's president, Michael Cassidy.
  • (2) It's only fair to note that Apple fans are ecstatic at the prospect.
  • (3) Happiness psychosis, because of the ecstatic emotions associated therewith, often involves a direct drive to do artistic work.
  • (4) Bloom is an ecstatic witness, and for him there are no half measures.
  • (5) With Connor Wickham’s late volleyed goal offering Sunderland no consolation, Pardew assumed centre stage at the final whistle, striding on to the pitch and saluting Palace’s rightly ecstatic travelling support.
  • (6) Sturgeon in plea to anti-independence voters over referendum plan Read more Although Sturgeon offered to compromise on the timing of a second vote, she brought 2,000 ecstatic delegates at the SNP spring conference in Aberdeen to their feet on Saturday declaring: “There will be an independence referendum.” Relations between Sturgeon and May have badly deteriorated since last summer and this was reflected throughout a defiant speech.
  • (7) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
  • (8) The authors describe an epileptic patient with ictal ecstatic experiences and an interictal behavioral change of hypergraphia.
  • (9) Some will betray flickers of relief or ecstatic incredulity; other faces drop.
  • (10) Iceland’s players are in there bobbing up and down like a bunch of non‑leaguers ecstatic at being drawn against Everton in the third round of the Cup, a reminder of the miniature scale of this obsessive social experiment.
  • (11) This article provides a review of the nature and role of hallucinogens in the ecstatic religion of contemporary and historical cultures in order to establish a background for analysis.
  • (12) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
  • (13) #RedSox @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 3.01am GMT Cardinals 1 - Red Sox 6, top of the 8th Freese hits a grounder that Bogaerts handles just fine, he throws it to first, Freese is out and the Fenway crowd is about to sing the loudest, most ecstatic version of "Sweet Caroline" in human history.
  • (14) In fact, the novel, which took nine years to write, has had an ecstatic reception by anyone's standards.
  • (15) George Miller’s ecstatically received Mad Max: Fury Road is also closing in on the race, following a recent wealth of critical awards, and Golden Globe nominations for picture and director.
  • (16) While what the BBC was calling a "mini-riot" happened both inside and outside the Millbank tower, the people in charge of its news channel were presumably ecstatic: this kind of stuff, after all, is what rolling news was invented for.
  • (17) His performance in Sir Nicholas Hytner’s production of One Man, Two Guvnors for the National Theatre, a role conceived especially for Corden, won ecstatic reviews in London and Broadway and won him, stunningly, the Tony award for best actor, beating a shortlist that included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frank Langella and James Earl Jones.
  • (18) Photograph: Amber Jamieson for the Guardian Nick Haby, a 27-year-old marketing assistant and organizer of the #AstoriaforHillary event at Icon declared himself “ecstatic” about Clinton’s win.
  • (19) Daniel Sturridge calls winner ‘a brilliant feeling’ after England beat Wales Read more “I’d have been a lot less ecstatic if we’d not conceded that late one against Russia at the weekend which robbed us of a deserved victory,” said Hodgson, whose reaction had been joyful in the dugout.
  • (20) I made my way to the beach afterwards, exhausted but ecstatic, my head full of beer and Brazilian football, and practically danced the two miles back to my hotel, cooling my sore feet in the crashing waves.

Exhilarated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Exhilarate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
  • (2) A few years later, I marched in protest at the imminent invasion of Iraq and felt the same exhilaration at being part of a collective.
  • (3) "By far the most exhilarating and life-affirming concert I have ever experienced."
  • (4) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.
  • (5) The NBA players dramatically underestimated the speed and skill of their opponents, and are narrowly defeated by the North Koreans in an exhilarating match.
  • (6) Most had never done any of these things before, but they needed no encouragement: the exhilaration with which they explored the living world seemed instinctive.
  • (7) Without Sergio Agüero and David Silva it was probably inevitable that City would not be at their most exhilarating.
  • (8) Exhilarating and liberating The next government will also have to cope with Britain's slipping position in the world.
  • (9) There are exhilarating moments, as at the Guggenheim in Bilbao , where spiralling stairs flow on to landings and views are cut through the different volumes, but above all there is an overwhelming feeling of lots and lots of empty space.
  • (10) Rachel Smith, 41, Belfast Facebook Twitter Pinterest Exhilarating ... Rachel makes a dash for Portavogie beach, Northern Ireland.
  • (11) The contrast between country and city, ancient and modern, was exhilarating, like having the Pennine Way start in London's Richmond Park.
  • (12) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
  • (13) Walcott seemed determined to make amends for his earlier mistake and Mesut Özil was prominently involved without being at his most exhilarating.
  • (14) Hard to see the woman who once observed that “the creative winds of destruction don’t feel quite so exhilarating when they’re sweeping past your factory gates” embracing tech giants as uncritically as the tech junkie Osborne.
  • (15) At first it was exhilarating to fire the gun and I was frustrated that my cousins wouldn't let me go out with them to fight.
  • (16) However, the potentially exhilarating and welcome aspect of what Ed Miliband and his core colleagues offer is the prospect of a new social compact, replacing what Stewart Wood at a one nation conference last Thursday called "the exhaustion of the old settlement".
  • (17) What haunts them, however, is a creeping dread that nearly 500 days of unprecedented insurrection, mobilisation and exhilaration is about to end in despair: that Walker will defeat the Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, and thereby sow defeat for Democratic causes and candidates nationwide, including President Barack Obama.
  • (18) The machinery - the spinning gazebo, the train, the paddle-powered airship - whirrs along at the delicate yet exhilarating pace of clockwork.
  • (19) It fitted with the exhilarating sense that plagues were being visited on us, but only lighthearted ones.
  • (20) "It's a completely gut-churning experience but it's really exhilarating at well," says Ayoade, who co-wrote the screenplay with Avi Korine, Harmony's brother.

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