单词 | exciting |
释义 | exciting (once / 330 pages) adj When something is exciting, it is full of activity and gets your blood pumping. Anything causing excitement is exciting. If your heart is racing and you’re thrilled, exhilarated, or jumping up and down with anticipation, something must be exciting. Different people find different things exciting. A close football game is exciting for fans. Being in love is exciting for just about anyone. Learning something new, whether French or juggling, is exciting. An action movie is supposed to be exciting — if it's not, it must not be very good. When you have exciting news, you can't wait to share it. WORD FAMILYexciting: excitingest, excitingly, unexciting+/excitability: excitabilities/excitable: excitability, excitableness, excitably, unexcitable/excitant: excitants/excitation: excitations/excite: excitable, excitant, excitation, excitative, excitatory, excited, excitement, excites, exciting/excited: excitedly, overexcited, unexcited/excitement: excitements/unexcited: unexcitedly/unexciting: unexcitingly USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s a daunting and exciting challenge, one that will require collaboration from all types of farmers and consumers. Time(Dec 01, 2016) STONE: That was an exciting aspect that it was our third thing together. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) “Suddenly, you’re not new and exciting any more,” she says. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1adj creating or arousing excitement an exciting account of her trip Syn|Ant breathless, breathtaking tending to cause suspension of regular breathing elating, exhilaratingmaking lively and joyful electric, galvanic, galvanising, galvanizingaffected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling electrifying, thrillingcausing a surge of emotion or excitement glamorous, glamouroushaving an air of allure, romance and excitement heady, intoxicatingextremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic titillatingpleasantly and superficially exciting tickling, tingling, titillatingexciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements interestingarousing or holding the attention provocativeserving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy sexymarked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest stimulatingrousing or quickening activity or the senses unexciting not exciting commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourousnot challenging; dull and lacking excitement uninspiredhaving no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement tameflat and uninspiring uninterestingarousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement unprovocative, unprovokingnot provocative unexciting, unstimulatingnot stimulating 2adj stimulating interest and discussion an exciting novel Syn stimulating rousing or quickening activity or the senses |
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