triumphant
adj.adj. feeling or showing great happiness because you have won a competition or achieved something difficult.
adj. feeling or manifesting exultation after a victory or significant achievement. Often used to describe a person's expression, tone, or physical posture.
The team made a triumphant return after winning the championship.
She gave a triumphant shout as she finally crossed the finish line ahead of her rivals.
The conductor took a triumphant bow, acknowledging the thunderous applause that followed the orchestra's flawless performance of the difficult symphony.
From Old French, from Latin triumphāns, present participle of triumphō (“to triumph; to exult, rejoice”). By surface analysis, triumph + -ant (adjectival suffix).
Commonly used both attributively before a noun and predicatively after linking verbs like 'feel' or 'look'.