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# exciting

«exciting» in Mova's school dictionary: **making you feel very happy and eager, wanting to know…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (exciting, more exciting, most exciting); verb form (excite, excites, excited, exciting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Exciting means making you feel very happy and eager, wanting to know what happens next. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#m1)

2) Something exciting is new, fun or full of action. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, birthdays, holidays and trips are exciting. In writing lessons, children build exciting openings and use exciting verbs; an exciting story has a problem and suspense. Phrases: an exciting adventure, how exciting, exciting news, really exciting.

### examples

- Going to the beach tomorrow is so exciting! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#x1)
- The football match was really exciting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#x2)
- We have some exciting news: a new puppy! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#x3)
- The book has an exciting ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#x4)
- It was exciting to see a real rocket launch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#x5)
- What an exciting day at the science museum! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#x6)
- The last minute of the race was the most exciting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#x7)
- Write an exciting opening for your story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#x8)
- "Now comes the exciting part, little Anna. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/#x9)

### note

Exciting vs excited: a thing is exciting; a person feels excited. «The trip was exciting, so I was excited.» Exciting is the opposite of boring.

### In the corpora

- [Documentary shows about real hospitals film real patients who agreed; they show the exciting moments chosen from hundreds of hours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/22/)
- [Trailers show the most exciting or scary bits squeezed together, so a trailer can feel scarier than the whole film.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/16/)
- [Some exciting claims are proven, others are still argued about, and good science says which is which.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/7/)
- [Bright screens and exciting games keep the brain alert and can delay melatonin, the sleepy hormone that rises when it gets dark.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/13/)
- [Films choose the most exciting moments, so animals seem busier than they really are.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «exciting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exciting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.