EXCITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exciting mean? 

• EXCITING (adjective)
  The adjective EXCITING has 2 senses:

1. creating or arousing excitement

2. stimulating interest and discussion

  Familiarity information: EXCITING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCITING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Creating or arousing excitement

Context example:

an exciting account of her trip

Similar:

breathless; breathtaking (tending to cause suspension of regular breathing)

elating; exhilarating (making lively and joyful)

electric; galvanic; galvanising; galvanizing (affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling)

electrifying; thrilling (causing a surge of emotion or excitement)

glamorous; glamourous (having an air of allure, romance and excitement)

heady; intoxicating (extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic)

titillating (pleasantly and superficially exciting)

tickling; tingling; titillating (exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements)

Also:

interesting (arousing or holding the attention)

provocative (serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy)

sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)

stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)

Attribute:

excitation; excitement; fervor; fervour; inflammation (the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up)

Antonym:

unexciting (not exciting)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stimulating interest and discussion

Context example:

an exciting novel

Similar:

stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)

 Context examples 

A trip could be especially exciting and romantic over the weekend of March 7-8 when Venus and Uranus, the planet of surprise, will conjoin and set off pretty fireworks in the evening sky.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The DCEG Intramural Research Award (IRA) is a new competitive funding mechanism to encourage exciting interdisciplinary projects that are innovative and cross the usual organizational boundaries.

(Intramural Research Award, NCI Thesaurus)

Going home with a new baby is exciting, but it can be scary, too.

(Infant and Newborn Care, NIH)

It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Even at that exciting moment it carried me back to the old Admiral Benbow in a second, and I seemed to hear the voice of the captain piping in the chorus.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was destined that the exciting incidents of that day were even now not at an end.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Do you find life very exciting?

(GDS - Find Life Exciting, NCI Thesaurus)

It vibrates in response to sound, exciting the hair cells and supports the organ of Corti.

(Basilar Membrane of the Membranous Canal of the Cochlea, NCI Thesaurus)

It's exciting because microbial life is an important source of methane on Earth, but methane can also be created through interactions between rocks and water.

(Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels, NASA)

This result is exciting because it shows that a common trait of most of the atmospheres in our solar system — a warm stratosphere — also can be found in exoplanet atmospheres.

(Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere, NASA)