excitive
Etymology
From excite + -ive.
excitive means excited. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 75 out of 100.
adj
- excited“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.“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
- That which excites; an excitant.