Exhilarating vs Uplifting - What's the difference?
exhilarating | uplifting |
Refreshingly thrilling.
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Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
The act of something being lifted upward.
* (Herman Melville)
* 1847 , The American Journal of Science and Arts (page 91)
As adjectives the difference between exhilarating and uplifting
is that exhilarating is refreshingly thrilling while uplifting is improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.As a verb exhilarating
is .As a noun uplifting is
the act of something being lifted upward.exhilarating
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
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Synonyms
* cheering * gladdening * stimulating * enlivening * See alsoExternal links
* *uplifting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting .
Noun
(en noun)- prodigious long upliftings of their legs
- The borders of large subsiding areas sooner or later experiencing deep fissurings and extensive upliftings through the tension or horizontal force of the subsiding crust