Excitive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Excitive is an adjective meaning Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
Meaning
Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
More Meanings
- (archaic) excited
- (archaic) That which excites; an excitant.
Example Sentences
What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]
Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childhood reading.
Word Forms
- excitives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exciteful, exciteable, excitative, excitant, excitatory, excitory.
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