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say it: THRIL-ing
thrilling is an adjective meaning "causing a surge of emotion or excitement". It carries 2 recorded senses.
causing a surge of emotion or excitement
“she gave an electrifying performance”
“a thrilling performer to watch”
causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock
“a thrilling wind blew off the frozen lake”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thrilling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.