- 2. Irascible, irritable, passionate, choleric, hasty, hot-tempered, quick-tempered.
Excite, v. a.
- 1. Arouse, rouse, awaken, evoke, provoke, call forth, stimulate, incite, animate, kindle, inflame, brew, stir
up.
- 2. Raise, create, evoke, elicit, give rise to, put in motion.
- 3. Disturb, agitate, discompose, irritate, provoke.
Excitement, n.
- 1. Excitation, exciting. See the verb, under
- 1 and
- 2.
- 2. Incitement, motive, stimulus.
- 3. Agitation, perturbation, commotion, sensation.
- 4. Irritation, warmth, heat, violence, choler, passion.
Exclaim, v. n. Vociferate, shout, call, cry out, call aloud.
Exclamation, n.
- 1. Vociferation, outcry, ejaculation, clamor.
- 2. (Rhet.) Ecphonesis, interjection.
Exclude, v. a.
- 1. Bar, debar, preclude, reject, shut out.
- 2. Prohibit, restrain, hinder, withhold.
- 3. Except, omit, not include.
- 4. Expel, eject, extrude, thrust out.