exciting

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsʌɪtɪŋ/, /ɛkˈsʌɪtɪŋ/

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exciting

1. present participle and gerund of excite

exciting (comparative more exciting, superlative most exciting)

1. creating or producing excitement
   • 1955 January, “Chess Caviar”, in Chess Review:

     Some of the most exciting games ever played have ended in draws.

• See also Thesaurus:exciting

• excitingness
• excitingly

exciting (plural excitings)

1. The process of something becoming excited; excitation.
   • 1855, George Herbert, The Complete Works of George Herbert:

     But parents and masters should make haste in this, as to a great purchase for their children and servants; which while they defer, both sides suffer; the one, in wanting many excitings of grace, the other, in being worse served and obeyed.