# exciting

Pronunciation: say "ik-SY-ting" /ɪkˈsʌɪtɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Producing a feeling of excitement or eager interest in those who experience it.
   - Simple: Making someone feel eager, very interested, or full of energy.
   - _Scientists found the experiment's results genuinely exciting and rushed to publish them._
   - _Investors described the new technology as exciting and full of promise._
3. Causing sexual arousal or stimulating sexual desire in a person.
   - Simple: Making a person feel sexual desire or attraction.
   - _The lovers exchanged a long glance that both found intensely exciting._
   - _She admitted that his whispered words in the dark were unexpectedly exciting._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of excite. — present participle and gerund of excite
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of excite. Use this form after a form of "be," or after verbs like keep and stop.
   - _Early reviews of the sequel are already exciting fans who have waited ten years for it._
   - _Constantly exciting the audience, the host never let the energy drop._

## Noun

4. The process by which something becomes excited or is stirred into greater activity; excitation. *(rare)*
   - Simple: The process of something becoming excited or stirred up.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/exciting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).