excitement

excitement /ik'saitmənt/
  • danh từ
    • sự kích thích, sự kích động; tình trạng bị kích thích, tình trạng bị kích động
    • sự nhộn nhịp, sự náo động, sự sôi nổi

Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): excitement, excite, excitable, excited, exciting, unexciting, excitedly, excitingly

Xem thêm: exhilaration, excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervour, excitation, agitation, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo



excitement

Từ điển Collocation

excitement noun

ADJ. considerable, fierce, great, high, intense, tremendous | breathless, febrile, feverish, heady, wild | genuine, real, sheer | initial | sudden | growing, heightened, mounting | added, further | suppressed | nervous, restless | guilty | pleasurable | strange | vicarious The reader of adventure stories wants romance and vicarious excite | youthful | intellectual, physical, political, sexual

QUANT. flicker, flurry, flush, frisson, ripple, surge She felt a surge of excitement when she heard the song.

VERB + EXCITEMENT be bubbling with, be filled with, be flushed with, be sick with, be trembling/tingling with, feel Her face was flushed with excitement. She was almost sick with excitement and apprehension. | cause, generate The news caused tremendous excitement among scientists. | conceal, control, hide, suppress He couldn't suppress the excitement in his voice. | add The element of risk just adds excitement.

EXCITEMENT + VERB build up, grow, mount, rise The tension and excitement built up gradually all day. | die down, evaporate, wear off

PREP. in ~ clapping her hands in excitement | ~ among The news has caused great excitement among scientists. | ~ at her excitement at the prospect of a new job | ~ of the excitement of meeting new people

PHRASES an air of excitement There was an air of excitement about the place. | a feeling/sense of excitement, a fever/state of excitement

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; exhilaration

    he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed

  • the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervour

    his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled

    he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation

  • something that agitates and arouses; excitation

    he looked forward to the excitements of the day

  • disturbance usually in protest; agitation, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

excitements
syn.: agitation excitation exhilaration fervor fervour hullabaloo inflammation turmoil upheaval