excited

/ɛkˈsaɪɾɪd/

/ɛkˈsaɪtɛd/

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.

Definitions of excited

1. adjective

   in an aroused state
   synonyms:

   agitated

   troubled emotionally and usually deeply

   aflutter, nervous

   excited in anticipation

   agog

   highly excited

   crazy

   possessed by inordinate excitement

   fevered

   highly excited

   drunk, intoxicated

   as if under the influence of alcohol

   overexcited

   unduly excited

   aroused, stimulated, stirred, stirred up

   emotionally aroused

   teased, titillated

   feeling mild pleasurable excitement

   thrilled

   feeling intense pleasurable excitement

   thrillful

   full of excitement; thrilled

   antonyms:

   unexcited

   not excited

   unagitated

   not agitated or disturbed emotionally
2. adjective

   marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
   synonyms: delirious, frantic, mad, unrestrained

   wild

   marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
3. adjective

   (of persons) excessively affected by emotions, especially enthusiasm or eagerness
   synonyms: aroused, emotional, worked up

   agitated

   troubled emotionally and usually deeply
4. adjective

   (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive
   synonyms: activated

   reactive

   participating readily in reactions