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Excited vs Athirst - What's the difference?

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Excited is a related term of athirst.


As adjectives the difference between excited and athirst

is that excited is having great enthusiasm while athirst is (archaic) thirsty.

As a verb excited

is .

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

    Verb

    (head)
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    athirst

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Thirsty.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
  • (figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).

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