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English
Pronunciation
Verb
thrilling
- present participle and gerund of thrill
Adjective
thrilling (comparative more thrilling, superlative most thrilling)
- 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.
Synonyms
Noun
thrilling (plural thrillings)
- A thrill.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English thrilling. As a noun meaning "thriller", a pseudo-anglicism.
Adjective
thrilling (invariable)
- thrilling
- (relational) thriller
Noun
thrilling m (invariable)
- thriller (film, book etc.)
- thrill