EXULTANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exultantly mean? 

• EXULTANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb EXULTANTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an exultant manner

  Familiarity information: EXULTANTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXULTANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an exultant manner

Synonyms:

exultantly; exultingly

Context example:

it was exultingly easy

Pertainym:

exultant (joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success)

 Context examples 

Mr. Higginbotham looked at his wife exultantly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His beard bristled exultantly, his chest was thrown out, and his hand was thrust into the front of his jacket.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Here is Herr Heidegger, sure enough!” cried Holmes, exultantly.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the rood! cried John, looking around him exultantly, where have we seen since we left such noble cows, such fleecy sheep, grass so green, or a man so drunk as yonder rogue who lies in the gap of the hedge?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He disgusted me much while with him, for when a horrid blow-fly, bloated with some carrion food, buzzed into the room, he caught it, held it exultantly for a few moments between his finger and thumb, and, before I knew what he was going to do, put it in his mouth and ate it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And a moment later, tearing herself half out of his embrace, suddenly and exultantly she reached up and placed both hands upon Martin Eden's sunburnt neck.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Why, mother, you are a woman, too! she cried exultantly, as they stood up, catching her mother's hands and standing erect, facing her in the twilight, conscious of a strangely sweet equality between them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)