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Excited vs Excitive - What's the difference?

excited | excitive |

As adjectives the difference between excited and excitive

is that excited is having great enthusiasm while excitive is (archaic) excited.

As a verb excited

is .

As a noun excitive is

(archaic) that which excites; an excitant.

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)
    • 1000 English basic words

    excitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) excited
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, title=A Williams Anthology, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childhood reading. }}
  • Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
  • * 1818 , John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of the scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary consumption, and chronic diseases
    • What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) That which excites; an excitant.