Thesaurus:enthusiastic
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: having excited interest or eagerness
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- ablaze
- agitated
- animated [⇒ thesaurus]
- ardent
- big [⇒ thesaurus] [on]
- bubbly
- delirious
- eager
- earnest
- ebullient
- energetic
- enthusiastic
- excited
- exhilarated
- fanatic
- fanatical
- febrile
- fervent
- fervid
- feverish
- gassed (MLE)
- geeked (slang)
- gung ho
- hearty
- high-spirited
- impassioned
- impetuous
- juiced
- lit up (slang)
- lively [⇒ thesaurus]
- mad
- motivated
- passionate
- perfervid
- raring
- rip-roaring
- souped-up (US dialect)
- stimulated
- thrilled
- torrid
- vehement
- vibrant
- vivacious
- wild [⇒ thesaurus]
- worked up
- wrought-up
- zealous
- zestful
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- fever-pitched
- highwrought (archaic)
- intoxicate (obsolete)
- nervicited
- overamped
- overexcited
- overwrought
- wired (slang)
Hypernyms
[edit]Various
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “825. excitability” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “821. feeling” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “enthusiastic” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.