thrilling

«thrilling» in Mova's school dictionary: very exciting and making you feel a strong, happy rush of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (thrilling); present participle of thrill

meaning for a pupil

1) Thrilling means very exciting and making you feel a strong, happy rush of excitement: a thrilling ride, a thrilling match. tree →

2) (verb form) Thrilling is also the -ing form of "thrill": "The magician was thrilling the crowd." tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories, reviews and book blurbs it tells the reader the action is full of excitement and suspense. In everyday life it is used for rides, sports and adventures. Phrases: "a thrilling finish", "thrilling adventure", "thrilling to watch".

examples

• The match had a thrilling finish in the last minute. tree →
• The roller coaster was thrilling. tree →
• This thrilling adventure story kept me reading all night. tree →
• It was thrilling to see a real whale. tree →
• The magician was thrilling the crowd with his tricks. tree →
• Scoring my first goal was thrilling. tree →
• The film has a thrilling chase through the city. tree →
• She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind. tree →

note

Related: thrill (noun and verb), thrilled (feeling very pleased: "I'm thrilled with my present"), thriller (an exciting crime or spy story). Thrilling describes the thing; thrilled describes the person.

In the corpora

• You watch a snow leopard creep across a cliff for three thrilling minutes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thrilling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.