ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (archaic) excited
  2. (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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exciteful, exciteable, excitative, excitant, excitatory, excitory.

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