to get excited

Examples

• All

• The first question, when do you start getting excited about Christmas?

• Give people a reason to get excited about the work that they're doing.

• And I, I get excited by that kind of stuff.

  Film Courage

• Yeah, I get excited when products are good.

• So let me get excited, please and thank you.

• We looked forward to that, and it kept us going, and we got excited about that.

  Academic text (2010)

• As before, when they get excited, they talk right over each other.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I feel like they both really love to get excited about concepts and ideas.

• This is why people really get excited about the wave packet approach.

• Children often get excited when they hear about upcoming holidays or special events.

Synonyms

G

to get (one's) juices flowing

vsto get excited

• Informal

1 7.9

To feel more energetic and creative and ready to work or think

is general eagerness not specifically about creativity or inspiration

G

to go wild over

vsto get excited

• Informal

1 3.9

Become very excited and happy about something like a song or a pet

is excited or eager in general rather than intensely passionate

B

to bubble over with excitement

vsto get excited

3.5

Show so much excitement that you cannot hide it

is about becoming eager internally rather than visibly overflowing

Antonyms

B

bored

353 1.0

Feeling not interested and tired from doing the same thing too much

I

indifferent

46 4.4

Not interested or showing no strong feeling about something

How Excited

to go wild over

• Informal

1 3.9

to get excited

112 1.0

to interest

206 1.0

Surface Forms

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Etymology