Excite vs Pique - What's the difference?
excite | pique | Synonyms |
To stir the emotions of.
To arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate.
(physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
A feeling of enmity between two entities; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride.
* Dr. H. More
* De Quincey
A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 7:
* Sweet Smell of Success (1957) screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, starring Burt Lancaster as J.J. Hunsecker who says:
(obsolete) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
* Hudibras
To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to excite to anger.
* 1913 ,
* Byron
(reflexive) To take pride in; to pride oneself on.
* John Locke
To excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting.
In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
In transitive terms the difference between excite and pique
is that excite is to arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate while pique is to excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting.As a noun pique is
a feeling of enmity between two entities; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride.excite
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Verb
(excit)- The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
- Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.
- The political reforms excited unrest among to population.
- There are drugs designed to excite certain nerves in our body.
- By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited , then emit a photon when returning to normal.
Antonyms
* relax, calmExternal links
* * ----pique
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Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
- Men take up piques and displeasures.
- Wars had arisen upon a personal pique .
- This defiance was not a fit of pique , but a matter of principle.
- You think this is a personal thing with me? Are you telling me I think of this in terms of a personal pique ?
- Though it have the pique , and long, / 'Tis still for something in the wrong.
Verb
(piqu)- She treated him indulgently, as if he were a child. He thought he did not mind. But deep below the surface it piqued him.
- Pique her and soothe in turn.
- Men pique themselves upon their skill.
- I believe this will pique your interest.
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