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Emotional vs Excited - What's the difference?

emotional | excited |

As adjectives the difference between emotional and excited

is that emotional is of or relating to the emotions while excited is having great enthusiasm.

As a verb excited is

past participle of lang=en.

emotional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the emotions.
  • emotional crisis
  • Characterised by emotion.
  • Determined by emotion rather than reason.
  • emotional decision
  • Appealing to or arousing emotion.
  • emotional speech
  • Easily affected by emotion.
  • She’s an emotional person.
  • Readily displaying emotion.
  • emotional greeting

    Synonyms

    * demonstrative * effusive * sentimental * temperamental

    Derived terms

    * emotional cripple * emotionalise (also emotionalize) * emotionalism * emotionally * * *

    excited

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having great enthusiasm.
  • He was very excited about his promotion.
  • * 2011 , (Rebecca Black) featuring
  • Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
    Today i-is Friday, Friday
    We-we-we so excited
    We so excited
    We gonna have a ball today.
  • (physics) Being in a state of higher energy.
  • The excited electrons give off light when they drop to a lower energy state.
  • Having an erection; erect.
  • Synonyms

    * enthusiastic

    Derived terms

    * excited state