Word Meanings - EXCITEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.

Related words: (words related to EXCITEFUL)

• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• STORYBOOK
  A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
• EXCITATOR
  A kind of discarder.
• EXCITATE
  To excite. Bacon.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• STORY-TELLER
  1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
• EXCITO-NUTRIENT
  Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
• EXCITO-SECRETORY
  Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
• EXCITANT
  Tending to excite; exciting.
• EXCITO-MOTORY
  Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.
• EXCITATORY
  Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.
• STORY
  A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. Note: A story
• CHAPMAN
  akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling
• EXCITEMENT
  A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues. (more info) 1. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement
• EXCITIVE
  Serving or tending to excite; excitative. Bamfield.
• CLERESTORY
  See CLEARSTORY
• FALDISTORY
  The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. (more info) faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• CLERSTORY
  See CLEARSTORY
• OVEREXCITE
  To excite too much.
• OVEREXCITEMENT
  Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
• SELF-EXCITE
  To energize or excite by induction from the residual magnetism of its cores, leading all or a part of the current thus produced through the field-magnet coils.