thrilling

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

thrilling

1. present participle and gerund of thrill

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.

• See also Thesaurus:exciting

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 […]

Unadapted borrowing from English thrilling. As a noun meaning "thriller", a pseudo-anglicism.

thrilling (invariable)

1. thrilling
2. (relational) thriller

thrilling m (invariable)

1. thriller (film, book etc.)
2. thrill