excitedadjective
uk/ɪkˈsaɪ.tɪd/us/ɪkˈsaɪ.t̬ɪd/A1 feeling very happy and enthusiastic:
Are you getting excited about your holiday?
An excited crowd waited for the singer to arrive.
More examples
- No wonder the children are excited, - this is the first time they've been abroad.
- They were really excited about the project, but now they seem to have lost interest in it now.
- I was quite excited at the idea of leaving home, but I was a bit frightened too.
- A group of excited teenagers climbed onto the train with all their luggage.
- The kids were so excited on Christmas Eve it was difficult for them to get to sleep.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Excited, interested and enthusiastic
- aflutter
- agog
- all of a flutter idiom
- amped
- animated
- be as high as a kite idiom
- fanatical
- fascinated
- fasten
- fasten on/upon sth
- float sb's boat idiom
- flushed
- flutter
- knot
- overzealous
- passionate
- pop-eyed
- potty
- psyched
- sniff
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excitedly
adverb uk/ɪkˈsaɪ.tɪd.li/us/ɪkˈsaɪ.t̬ɪd.li/
B1
She ran excitedly down the hall to greet her cousins.
Idiom(s)
be nothing to get excited about