excited
Americanadjective
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stirred emotionally; agitated.
An excited crowd awaited the arrival of the famed rock group.
- Synonyms:
- impassioned, perturbed, stormy, ruffled
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stimulated to activity; brisk.
an excited buying and selling of stocks.
- Synonyms:
- enthusiastic, active, eager
adjective
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emotionally aroused, esp to pleasure or agitation
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characterized by excitement
an excited dance
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sexually aroused
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(of an atom, molecule, etc) occupying an energy level above the ground state
Usage
Spelling tips for excited The word excited is hard to spell because people often want to skip the c (exited) or substitute it with an s (exsited), neither of which are correct. How to spell excited: When you're excited about something you exclaim "oh boy!". This phrase can help you remember that like exclaim, excited begins exc-.
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Etymology
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Explanation
If you're excited you're enthusiastic and animated, like a kid in a candy store. Or a kid on their birthday. Or a kid on the last day of school. Meaning more than just "wildly happy," excited describes all sorts of excessive emotions (and not always the good ones). If you're excited you might be agitated, nervous, anxious, or worked up about something. Skip a little further out on the excited spectrum and you're verging on a loss of control: You're delirious, frantic, mad, or unrestrained. Less like a kid in a candy store than a kid on his tenth cup of espresso.
Vocabulary lists containing excited
Nuclear Processes
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Physics - High School
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Example Sentences
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I’m very excited to be seeing them participate after 16 years.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
“This is probably what we’re most excited about as Americans,” Vance said at a news conference Monday from the diplomatic summit in Switzerland, announcing what he billed as a “major milestone.”
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
A generation of Chinese consumers who can’t get excited about buying apartments or luxury goods is spending on emotional experiences and comfort objects, fueling a $15-billion collectible-toy industry almost from scratch.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026
With inflation comfortably above the Fed’s 2% target and moving higher in recent months, many investors are hesitant to get too excited about what a drop in oil prices could mean.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
He was so excited he was afraid he might crush the paper from holding it so tightly.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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