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excitive

excitive adjective: excited.

Adjective

excitive (comparative more excitive, superlative most excitive)

  1. (archaic) excited
    • 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.1910, Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, A Williams Anthology
  2. Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
    • What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]1818, John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of the scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary consumption, and chronic diseases

Noun

excitive (plural excitives)

  1. (archaic) That which excites; an excitant.

Forms of excitive

Adjective
comparativemore excitive
superlativemost excitive
Noun
pluralexcitives

Origin of excitive

From excite + -ive.

Questions about excitive

What does excitive mean?
Excitive means excited.
What part of speech is excitive?
Excitive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near excitive in the dictionary

  1. excitin'
  2. exciting
  3. excitingly
  4. excitingness
  5. excitings
  6. excitive
  7. excitives
  8. excito-
  9. excitoglandular
  10. excitomotor
  11. excitomotory

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