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Excited   /ɪksˈaɪtəd/  /ɪksˈaɪtɪd/   Listen
Excited

adjective
1.
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion.  Synonyms: aroused, emotional, worked up.  "She was worked up about all the noise"
2.
In an aroused state.
3.
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion.  Synonyms: delirious, frantic, mad, unrestrained.  "Something frantic in their gaiety" , "A mad whirl of pleasure"
4.
(of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive.  Synonym: activated.


Excite

verb
(past & past part. excited; pres. part. exciting)
1.
Arouse or elicit a feeling.
2.
Act as a stimulant.  Synonym: stimulate.  "This play stimulates"
3.
Stir feelings in.  Synonyms: stimulate, stir.  "Excite the audience" , "Stir emotions"
4.
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.  Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on.
5.
Stimulate sexually.  Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up.
6.
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.  Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir.  "The civil war shook the country"
7.
Raise to a higher energy level.  Synonyms: energise, energize.
8.
Produce a magnetic field in.



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"Excited" Quotes from Famous Books



... making a trustful effort to lean and find herself sustained. It was as if he had a vision of himself besought with outstretched arms and cries, while he was caught by the waves and compelled to mount the vessel bound for a far-off coast. That was the strain of excited feeling in him that went along with the notes of Mirah's song; but when it ceased he moved from his seat with the reflection that he had been falling into an exaggeration of his own importance, and a ridiculous readiness to accept Gwendolen's view of himself, as if he could really have ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... talk I had with him as with the others named, especially with John Burr. Bough and he both could talk as well as paint, and talk right well. Bough had a slight cast in the eye; when he got a wee excited on his subject he would come close to you with head shaking, and spectacles displaced, and forelock wagging, and the cast would seem to die away. Was this a fact, or was it an illusion on my part? I have often asked myself that question, and now I ask it of others. Can any of my ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp
... get so excited watching to see if the next act is going to be as rotten as the last ...
— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber
... the emergency light flashed on for the second time in two hundred years. With its red glow illuminating his freckled excited face, Hansen triumphantly placed another call to ...
— No Moving Parts • Murray F. Yaco
... a perfect bomb, Joey. It was funny! Of course the new man's a city product, and he drew him to the life: rushed and tortured by ambition, tired out at the end of the day, too tired to be possibly amusing, his nerves excited till anything quieter than lower Broadway hurts his ears, all passion and brilliance spent on business, dinners here and there, with people who all have their ax to grind, too, and are keyed up to it by rows and rows of cocktails. He drew him without mercy, ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy


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