triumphant Definition
tri·um·phant (trī um′fənt)
triumphant Related Forms
tri·um′·phantly adverb
triumphant Synonyms
triumphant
modif.
Antonyms
triumphant Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- ultimately: Some would say they were mad - yet they were, even at great personal sacrifice, ultimately triumphant.
- again: The next matches played were with the High School of Glasgow and Craigholme School, where RGC were again triumphant beating both teams.
- home: Sue Corlett from the Isle of Man went home triumphant despite yielding first place in both dressage and marathon to Angela Flanagan.
- eventually: Only fragments of them survived the fires of the eventually triumphant Catholic Church.
- almost: The guard, still shaking, had developed a nasty, almost triumphant smile.
- also: Progress is halting and painful, but also triumphant and often blackly humorous.
Preposition: over
death: It portrays a risen Christ triumphant over death and suffering.
Modifies a noun
- homecoming: The last gig we did at The Greenhouse in London was a triumphant homecoming for us.
- fanfare: The music is full of power with upbeat tempos, dynamic rhythyms, memorable themes and loud triumphant fanfares.
- comeback: Following last season's unfortunate relegation to Division 2, the Academicals are planning a triumphant comeback.
- finale: The moving piece builds and culminates in a triumphant finale, full of joy and hope.
- return: Gary Little made a triumphant return to the Just Laugh stage.
- procession: If there's any doubt that Rome deserves a triumphant procession to herald its arrival, bear this in mind.
Used with adjective complement
- emerge: Local pub the Three Jolly Butchers emerged triumphant with their blazing yellow Albion kit, very kindly donated by the Brighton football club.
- stand: Back on topic, " Who is she that stands triumphant?
- return: Data in the bag, I returned triumphant to the UK.
- rise: Over the most excruciating torture of body the brave soul may rise triumphant.
- feel: I felt quite triumphant over writing a story set in my own country.
- sound: Now that all sounds pretty triumphant for that first group of people, doesn't it?
Preposition: in
heaven: It clearly showed the relationship between the Church militant upon the earth and the Church triumphant in heaven.
Browse dictionary entries near triumphant
- ‹ triumphalism
- ‹ triumphal
- ‹ triumph
- ‹ trituration
- ‹ triturate
- ‹ tritone
- ‹ triton
- ‹ tritoma
- ‹ tritium
- ‹ triticale
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