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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs excite and excitate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

excited
  1. Having great enthusiasm.
  2. (physics) Being in a state of higher energy.
  3. Having an erection; erect.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. enthusiastic, eager, buoyant, delighted, desirous, elated, jovial, joyful, joyous, thrilled, ecstatic, encouraged, engaged, enlivened, enraptured, enthused, euphoric, excitable, exhilarated, glad, great, interested, motivated, overjoyed, rhapsodic, stoked, willing, craving, electrified, exuberant, exultant, gung ho, happy, inclined, inspired, jolly, roused, agog, ambitious, amenable, animated, appetent, athirst, avid, awakened, bursting, disposed, elevated, giddy, hungry … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Yes, I have started writing for my second album, and I am so excited about working the arrangements out with my producer and my band.”
      “The second is the Auger effect, by which the hole left by the excited core electron is filled by an outer electron.”
      “Walter and Jesse would get excited at the sound of police sirens.”
excitive
  1. (archaic) excited
  2. Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
excitatory
  1. stimulating, exciting or causing excitation; excitative
  2. Examples:
      3. “The responsible nerves appear to include both excitatory cholinergic fibers and inhibitory fibers that probably release nitric oxide.”
      “Responses ensuing from the spontaneous release of single quanta are termed miniature excitatory junctional currents.”
      “Individual muscle fibers may be innervated by one or both of the excitatory neurons, and generally receive inhibitory input as well.”
exciting
  1. creating or producing excitement
  2. Synonyms:
      3. thrilling, exhilarating, gripping, rousing, stimulating, dramatic, electrifying, enthralling, inspiring, intoxicating, envigorating, invigorating, stirring, compelling, explosive, moving, riveting, breathtaking, intense, powerful, sensational, shocking, startling, suspenseful, arousing, cliffhanging, dynamic, mind-blowing, wild, hair-raising, knife-edge, nerve-racking, spine-tingling, adrenaline-charged, edge-of-the-seat, electric, exhilarative, heart-stopping, kicky, mind-bending, mind-boggling, rip-roaring, stem-winding, fascinating, interesting, intriguing, charged, galvanizing, captivating, provocative … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “We went on an exciting roller-coaster ride at the theme park.”
      “I can't wait to give my parents the exciting news about my college enrollment.”
      “He found her perfume to be strangely exciting.”
excitant
  1. exciting; stimulating
exciteable
  1. (dated) Alternative spelling of excitable
exciteful
  1. (archaic) Full of exciting qualities.
excitative
  1. That causes excitation
  2. Examples:
      3. “In some magic, excitative flash of memory her breath began to quicken.”
excitable
  1. Easily excited.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. skittish, jittery, jumpy, nervous, fluttery, skittery, flighty, hyper, spasmodic, passionate, hyperexcitable, hyperactive, spooky, hyperkinetic, vehement, volatile, temperamental, demonstrative, emotional, fierce, restless, impetuous, rash, tempestuous, wired, edgy, impulsive, agitable, fidgety, overzealous, mercurial, enthusiastic, volcanic, alarmable, adrenalized, inflammable, high-strung, fiddle-footed, highly strung, manic, uncontrollable, energetic, wild, frenzied, agitated, excessively active, overexcited, overactive, unbalanced, hotheaded … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Plenty of turn-out time and correct feeding for the type of work the horse is doing, will help to calm an excitable temperament.”
      “She can be, shall we say, quite excitable if you insult Justin Bieber.”
      “In any case, the minister has since, as I noted above, artfully backed away from his previous excitable fulminations.”
excitated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of excitate
excitating
  1. present participle of excitate
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