different between exhilarating vs zestful

English

Verb

exhilarating

1. present participle of exhilarate

Adjective

exhilarating (comparative more exhilarating, superlative most exhilarating)

1. Refreshingly thrilling.

Synonyms

• exhilarant
• cheering
• gladdening
• stimulating
• enlivening
• See also Thesaurus:blissful

Translations

Further reading

• exhilarating in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exhilarating in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

zest +? -ful

Adjective

zestful (comparative more zestful, superlative most zestful)

1. Having a spirited love of life; ebullient.
   • 1957, Arthur Upfield, Bony Buys a Woman, London: Heinemann, 1967, Chapter 13, p. 117,^[1]

     Debonair youth! The spurs, the wide felt hat, the open shirt, the belt holding the array of small pouches, including a holstered revolver, the delight in the long stock-whip having a bright green silk cracker to produce loud reports, ranging from slow rifle fire to the rat-tat-tat of a machine-gun, all told the story of zestful youth.

2. Eager, enthusiastic.
   • 1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1935, Book 1, § 10, p. 77,^[2]

     […] there appeared a narrowly patriotic government, which presently developed into an aggressive, vindictive and pitiless dictatorship, and set itself at once to the zestful persecution of the unfortunate ethnic minorities […]

   • 1968, Donald Barthelme, “The Dolt” in Sixty Stories, New York: Dutton, 1982, p. 94,^[3]

     […] the former priest, by now habituated to military life, and even zestful for it, enlisted under the new young king, with the rank of captain.

Derived terms

• zestfully
• zestfulness

Translations

Anagrams

• Fultzes, Zufelts