Definition of Excited

1. Adjective. (of persons) excessively affected by emotion. "She was worked up about all the noise"

Exact synonyms: Aroused, Emotional, Worked Up
Similar to: Agitated
Derivative terms: Emotionality

2. Adjective. In an aroused state.

3. Adjective. Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion. "A mad whirl of pleasure"
Exact synonyms: Delirious, Frantic, Mad, Unrestrained
Similar to: Wild
Derivative terms: Delirium, Madness

4. Adjective. (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive.
Exact synonyms: Activated
Category relationships: Natural Philosophy, Physics
Similar to: Reactive

Definition of Excited

1. Adjective. Having great enthusiasm. ¹

2. Adjective. (physics) Being in a state of higher energy. ¹

3. Adjective. Having an erection; erect. ¹

4. Verb. (past participle of excite) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Excited

1. excite [v] - See also: excite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excited

excitative
excitator
excitatory
excitatory amino acid
excitatory amino acid agents
excitatory amino acid agonists
excitatory amino acid antagonists
excitatory amino acids
excitatory junction potential
excitatory postsynaptic potential
excitatory postsynaptic potentials
excitatory synapse
excite
exciteable
exciteableness
excited (current term)
excited atom
excited catatonia
excited state
excited states
excitedly
exciteful
excitement
excitements
exciter
exciters
excites
excitin'
exciting
exciting cause

Literary usage of Excited

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"If we touch the ball A with a piece of excited glass, and В with a piece of excited •ealing-wax, and touch a ball C, fastened to a shellac stem, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Fluorescence between excited States The lack of observable emission from excited molecules can be attributed to any of several nonradiative transitions, ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"To a ir-electron SCF and SCF-CI calculation we couple an evaluation of the HH repulsion to estimate torsional potential energy curves in ground and excited ..."

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1864)
"HOW THE ASPECT OF SOCIETY IN THE UNITED STATES IS AT ONCE excited AND MONOTONOUS. ... Yet, in the end, the spectacle of this excited community becomes ..."

5. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1913)
"The principle of direct action of the excited nervous system on the body, ... When the sensorium is strongly excited nerve- force is generated in excess, ..."

6. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"If therefore a system of currents is excited in a uniform plane sheet of infinite ... Hence, the system of currents excited in the sheet by the sudden ..."

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