thrill-ingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

thrilling

1. present participle and gerund of thrill

形容詞

thrilling (comparative more thrilling, superlative most thrilling)

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

     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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:exciting

派生語

名詞

thrilling (plural thrillings)

1. A thrill.
   • 1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land:

     […] my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love […]