Word Meanings - EXCITING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXCITING)

• Thrilling
• Arousing
• stirring
• exciting
• affecting
• pleasing

Related words: (words related to EXCITING)

• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• 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.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• 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.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• 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;
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• EXCITATOR
  A kind of discarder.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• EXCITATE
  To excite. Bacon.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• THRILLING
  Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly, adv. -- Thrill"ing*ness, n.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• AFFECTIVE
  1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
• PLEASURIST
  A person devoted to worldly pleasure. Sir T. Browne.
• AROUSE
  To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• PURPURIPAROUS
  Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
• SEBIPAROUS
  See SEBIFEROUS
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• AVAROUS
  Avaricious.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• SUDORIPAROUS
  See SUDORIFEROUS
• OMNIPAROUS
  Producing all things; omniparient.
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.