a. [f. L. exhilarāt- ppl. stem of exhilarāre to EXHILARATE + -IVE.] Tending to produce exhilaration.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. 356–7. Pamphlets came our;… sapid, exhilarative.
1873. St. Paul’s Mag., Feb., 133. It was a morning most exhilarative.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 200. A feeling of lassitude … preceded … by a short period of exhilarative excitement.
