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EXCITED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of persons) excessively affected by emotion
Example:
she was worked up about all the noise
Synonyms:
aroused; emotional; excited; worked up
Classified under:
Similar:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In an aroused state
Classified under:
Similar:
aflutter; nervous (excited in anticipation)
agog (highly excited by eagerness, curiosity, etc.)
crazy (possessed by inordinate excitement)
fevered (highly or nervously excited)
drunk; intoxicated (as if under the influence of alcohol)
overexcited (unduly excited)
aroused; stimulated; stirred; stirred up (emotionally aroused)
teased; titillated (feeling mild pleasurable excitement)
thrilled (feeling intense pleasurable excitement)
thrillful (full of excitement; thrilled)
Also:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
Antonym:
unexcited (not excited)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive
Synonyms:
activated; excited
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
reactive (participating readily in reactions)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
Example:
a mad whirl of pleasure
Synonyms:
delirious; excited; frantic; mad; unrestrained
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
wild (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb excite
Context examples:
The scar made by the hammer was, as usual in this excited state of her features, strongly marked.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The notice, which she excited herself, was to this effect.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
An artifact resulting from the flow of excited spins out of the imaged slice.
(Exit of Excited Spins from the Volume, NCI Thesaurus)
A class of dyes when excited by light of certain wavelengths, emit photons and become fluorescent.
(Fluorochrome Dye, NCI Thesaurus)
She held the parcel towards her, and Emma read the words Most precious treasures on the top. Her curiosity was greatly excited.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This appearance excited our unqualified wonder.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The addition of energy to a system, thereby transferring it from its ground state to an excited state.
(Excitation, NCI Thesaurus)
You may feel full of energy, happy, and excited.
(Cocaine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
They discovered a type of ganglion cell that was excited by green light but suppressed by UV light.
(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)
Confused by his notice, and blushing from the fear of its being excited by something wrong in her appearance, she turned away her head.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
