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Excited vs Hyperactive - What's the difference?

excited | hyperactive |

As adjectives the difference between excited and hyperactive

is that excited is having great enthusiasm while hyperactive is having an increased state of activity.

As a verb excited

is past participle of lang=en.

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

    hyperactive

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia hyperactive) (en adjective)
  • having an increased state of activity
  • having attention deficit disorder (no longer used by the scientific community)

    • Synonyms

    * overactive

    Antonyms

    * hypoactive

    Derived terms

    * hyperactively