Word Meanings - EXCITEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 of the people. 2. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive. The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle. Talfowrd.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXCITEMENT)

• Ado
• Hubbub
• commotion
• fuse
• excitement
• Bother
• Fuse
• worry
• pester
• stir
• plague
• vex
• annoy
• tease
• confusion
• vexation
• flurry
• trouble
• Bustle
• Business
• activity
• energy
• haste
• hurry
• eagerness
• Commotion
• Agitation
• disturbance
• tumult
• turmoil
• perturbation
• Emotion
• Passion
• feeling
• agitation
• trepidation
• tremor

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXCITEMENT)

• Soothe
• compose
• quiet
• calm
• mesmerize
• Compose
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to EXCITEMENT)

• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• HURRY-SKURRY
  Confusedly; in a bustle. Gray.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• BUSTLER
  An active, stirring person.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• TEASE
  To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments. 4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• ANNOY
  disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy Prior. 2. To molest,
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• WHURRY
  To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• OVERPESTER
  To pester exceedingly or excessively. Sir W. Raleigh.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.