excitive
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excitive
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From excite + -ive.
adjective more excitive · most excitive
- 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.
- 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 […]
noun excitives
- That which excites; an excitant.
Talk about this word "excitive." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/excitive. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. excitive. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/excitive "excitive." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/excitive.
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@misc{excitive_2026,
title = {excitive},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/excitive},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
