Oxford directly records thrilled + to-infinitive and thrilled about + noun/event.
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Quick answer
Use “thrilled to do something” when thrilled is completed by an infinitive action or event. Use “thrilled about something” when the complement names the thing or situation causing excitement.
Key details
Confusion Familyverb-complement
Rule Familyverb-complementation
Termsthrilled to do, thrilled about something
Further guidance
Core difference
Oxford documents thrilled + to-infinitive and thrilled about + noun/event as standard complement patterns.
Style Boundary
Use about for the thing or event producing excitement; use to + base verb for the infinitive action/event pattern.
Sources and evidence
Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.
Thrilled↗ (opens in a new tab)Oxford University Press · Direct learner-dictionary evidence for thrilled + to-infinitive and thrilled about + noun/event.
Cambridge directly records amazed + to-infinitive and amazed at + complement, making it an evidence-safe replacement for the unsupported Satisfied proposal.
Oxford directly records both ashamed + to-infinitive and ashamed of + noun/pronoun. The guide compares those attested structures without inventing an unsupported parallel complement.
Oxford directly documents averse to (doing) something. This is a prepositional to + noun/-ing construction, so a bare infinitive should not be assumed to be an interchangeable complement.
Oxford documents the idiomatic adjective pattern bent on (doing) something for determination. The evidence does not license a parallel bent + to-infinitive complement for that same meaning.
