Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ɪkˈsʌɪtɪŋ/, /ɛkˈsʌɪtɪŋ/
exciting
- present participle and gerund of excite
Adjective
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exciting (comparative more exciting, superlative most exciting)
- creating or producing excitement
1955 January, “Chess Caviar”, in Chess Review:Some of the most exciting games ever played have ended in draws.
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Derived terms
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Translations
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causing excitement
- Arabic: مُثِير (muṯīr)
- Azerbaijani: həyacanlı
- Belarusian: хвалю́ючы (xvaljújučy)
- Bulgarian: вълнуващ (bg) (vǎlnuvašt), интересен (bg) (interesen)
- Catalan: excitant
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 令人激動的／令人激动的 (lìng rén jīdòng de)
- Cornish: yntanus
- Czech: vzrušující (cs)
- Danish: spændende (da)
- Dutch: spannend (nl)
- Faroese: spennandi
- Finnish: jännittävä (fi)
- French: excitant (fr)
- German: aufregend (de), spannend (de)
- Greek: συναρπαστικός (el) (synarpastikós)
- Hungarian: izgalmas (hu)
- Icelandic: spennandi
- Italian: emozionante (it)
- Latin: excitans
- Macedonian: возбудлив m (vozbudliv)
- Maori: hiamo, whakaihiihi
- Marathi: उत्कंठावर्धक (utkaṇṭhāvardhak)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: spennende (no)
- Nynorsk: spennande, spanande
- Portuguese: excitante (pt), empolgante (pt)
- Russian: волну́ющий (ru) (volnújuščij), захва́тывающий (ru) (zaxvátyvajuščij), возбужда́ющий (ru) (vozbuždájuščij)
- Slovak: vzrušujúci
- Spanish: emocionante (es)
- Swedish: spännande (sv)
- Turkish: heyecanlı (tr)
- Ukrainian: захо́пливий m (zaxóplyvyj), захо́плива f (zaxóplyva), збу́джуючий (zbúdžujučyj)
- Vietnamese: gây hứng thú, lý thú (vi)
- Walloon: efoufiant (wa) m
- Welsh: cyffrous (cy)
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exciting (plural excitings)
- The process of something becoming excited; excitation.
1855, George Herbert, The Complete Works of George Herbert:But parents and masters should make haste in this, as to a great purchase for their children and servants; which while they defer, both sides suffer; the one, in wanting many excitings of grace, the other, in being worse served and obeyed.
