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thrilly

thrilly adjective: exciting, producing a thrill.

Adjective

thrilly (comparative thrillier, superlative thrilliest)

  1. exciting, producing a thrill.
    • To know it is to feel it, the clitoris so complicated and so clever, as thrilly as a high-tension wire. In its nest within a nest like the word within a word. The bud in its calyx in the vales where the big lips cleave away from the slopes of the Mount of Venus. This is carnal knowledge.1970, Germaine Greer, The Politics Of Female Sexuality
    • ...I saw his eyes inside the mask smiling at me and right there at that moment everything became okay, exultant new world vision, a new thrilly freedom down down down in the blue glass light world.1995, Timothy Leary, High Priest

Forms of thrilly

comparativethrillier
superlativethrilliest

Origin of thrilly

From thrill + -y.

Words that rhyme with thrilly

22 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about thrilly

What does thrilly mean?
Thrilly means exciting, producing a thrill.
What part of speech is thrilly?
Thrilly is an adjective.

Words near thrilly in the dictionary

  1. thrillseeker
  2. thrillseekers
  3. thrillseeking
  4. thrillsome
  5. thrillsville
  6. thrilly
  7. Thrimby
  8. thrimsa
  9. thrimsas
  10. Thrimshing
  11. thrin

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