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Surprised vs Excited - What's the difference?

surprised | excited |

As adjectives the difference between surprised and excited

is that surprised is caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event while excited is having great enthusiasm.

As verbs the difference between surprised and excited

is that surprised is past tense of surprise while excited is past participle of lang=en.

surprised

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.

    • Synonyms

    * astonished *

    Verb

    (head)
  • (surprise)

    • See also

    * shocked

    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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