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# overexcited

«overexcited» in Mova's school dictionary: **So excited that you cannot stay calm and may become…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (overexcited)

### meaning for a pupil

1) So excited that you cannot stay calm and may become silly, loud or wild. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overexcited/#m1)

2) Too excited about something, more than makes sense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overexcited/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life parents and teachers say children are overexcited before birthdays, holidays or snow days. In stories it shows a character losing control because of joy. Phrases: get overexcited, don't get overexcited.

### examples

- The puppy got overexcited and knocked over the cups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overexcited/#x1)
- The kids were overexcited on the last day of term. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overexcited/#x2)
- Don't get overexcited; it might not snow tomorrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overexcited/#x3)
- He was so overexcited he couldn't sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overexcited/#x4)
- Overexcited fans ran onto the pitch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overexcited/#x5)
- Calm down, you're getting overexcited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overexcited/#x6)

### note

Over- means too much. Written as one word. Similar: hyper (informal), wound up. Opposite: calm.

### In the corpora

- ["Overexcited" said about a child often means out of control.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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