jazzed

1. 1
   adjectiveslang

   Feeling very enthusiastic and excited.

   The buzzing energy of a crowd just before the lights go down at a show.

   She was jazzed to start her new job downtown.

   The whole team felt jazzed after the surprise announcement.

   Similarexcited, psyched, stoked, thrilled, pumped

   Oppositebored, unenthusiastic, indifferent, deflated

   Note

   This is the slang of eager anticipation, at home beside psyched and stoked. It usually follows a linking verb and takes about for the cause of the excitement. Roger Seip, in Train Your Brain For Success (2012), writes of a project you were "totally jazzed about." Because it is slang, keep it to speech and friendly writing. It grades like an ordinary adjective, so more jazzed is fine.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of jazz.

   The designers jazzed up the hotel lobby with neon lights.

   He has jazzed up his presentation with animations and bold colors.

   Note

   One spelling covers both the past tense and the participle of every verb jazz, from playing the music to brightening something up. The participle is the form you meet in passives, as in a lobby jazzed with neon. The old American slang sense of having sex for money is intransitive, so it never turns passive. Graded uses such as more jazzed belong to the excited adjective, not the verb.

3. 3
   adjective

   Performed or arranged in the style of jazz.

   The trio played a jazzed take on the national anthem.

   Her jazzed rendition of the ballad drew loud applause.

   Similarswinging, syncopated, jazzy

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