Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Excitation

Nouns
  • excitation of feeling
  • mental excitement
  • suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection
  • animation, agitation, perturbation
  • subjugation, fascination, intoxication
  • enravishment
  • entrancement
  • pressure, tension, high pressure. unction, impressiveness etc. adj.. trail of temper
  • irritation etc. (anger) Resentment
  • passion etc. (state of excitability) [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability
  • thrill etc. (feeling) Feeling
  • repression of feeling etc. [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitability
  • sensationalism, yellow journalism.
Verbs
  • excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect
  • stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood
  • set astir
  • wake, awake, awaken
  • call forth
  • evoke, provoke
  • raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up
  • raise
  • get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir
  • fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame. stimulate
  • exsuscitate
  • inspirit
  • spirit up, stir up, work up, pique
  • infuse life into, give new life to
  • bring new blood, introduce new blood
  • quicken
  • sharpen, whet
  • work upon etc. (incite) Motive
  • hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle. fan the fire, fan the flame
  • blow the coals, stir the embers
  • fan into a flame
  • foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat
  • keep up, keep the pot boiling
  • revive, rekindle
  • rake up, rip up. stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings
  • touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart
  • go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick
  • possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul. absorb, rivet the attention
  • sink into the mind, sink into the heart
  • prey on the mind, distract
  • intoxicate
  • overwhelm, overpower
  • upset, turn one's head. fascinate
  • enrapture etc. (give pleasure) [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure.] Pleasurableness. agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger
  • give one a shock, give one a turn
  • strike all of a heap
  • stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify. irritate, sting
  • cut to the heart, cut to the quick
  • try one's temper
  • fool to the top of one's bent, pique
  • infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil
  • lash into fury etc. (wrath) Resentment. be excited etc. adj.
  • flush up, flare up
  • catch the infection
  • thrill etc. (feel) Feeling
  • mantle
  • work oneself up
  • seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave
  • run mad etc. (passion) [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability.
Adjectives
  • excited etc. v.
  • wrought up, astir, sparkling
  • in a quiver etc. Feeling, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement
  • in hysterics
  • black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge
  • hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish
  • all of a twitter, in a pucker
  • with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes. flaming
  • boiling over
  • ebullient, seething
  • foaming at the mouth
  • fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal. lost, tempest-tossed
  • haggard
  • ready to sink. stung to the quick, up, on one's high ropes. exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting etc. v.
  • impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling
  • high-wrought
  • soul-stirring, soul-subduing
  • heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling
  • agonizing etc. (painful) [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain] Painfulness
  • telling, sensational, hysterical
  • overpowering, overwhelming
  • more than flesh and blood can bear
  • yellow. piquant etc. (pungent) Pungency
  • spicy, appetizing, provocative, provoquant, tantalizing. eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit.
Adverbs
  • till one is black in the face.
Phrases
  • the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth
  • the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins
  • the eye glistening, the eyes in a fine frenzy rolling
  • the head turned
  • when the going gets tough, the tough get when the going gets tough, the tough get going" [Richard Nixon].