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exciting

verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • //ɪkˈsʌɪtɪŋ//
  • //ɛkˈsʌɪtɪŋ//

Creating or producing excitement.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of excitepresent participle and gerund of excite

adjective

  1. 1

    Creating or producing excitement.

    Some of the most exciting games ever played have ended in draws.

  2. 2

    Sexually stimulating.

    Among the Turks, an exciting compound consists of olibanum, myrrh, camphor, musk, in pulverized form. The resultant perfume is said to affect the genitals.

noun

  1. 1

    The process of something becoming excited; excitation.

    But parents and masters should make haste in this, as to a great purchase for their children and servants; which while they defer, both sides suffer; the one, in wanting many excitings of grace, the other, in being worse served and obeyed.

Forms

plural
excitings
comparative
more exciting
superlative
most exciting
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).