enthused

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adjective

Enthusiastic.

“She doesn't seem very enthused about her aunt's birthday gift.”

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveenthused (comparative more enthused, superlative most enthused)

comparative more enthused · superlative most enthused

  1. Enthusiastic.

    She doesn't seem very enthused about her aunt's birthday gift.

    2 more examples

    One audience member in particular seemed especially enthused.

    2015 January 14, Maria Konnikova, “Trying to Cure Depression, but Inspiring Torture”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2023

    There are facts in this book that make me feel enthused about voting, to the extent that I have any remaining capacity to be more enthused about voting. For example: "In 1950, CEOs made about 20 times more than the regular employee, by 2013, they made more than 204 times more."

    2020 September 24, Shannon Palus, “Millennials Aren't As Helpless As We Appear to Be”, in Slate, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2023

    Synonyms: amped up, amped, pumped up, pumped, psyched up, psyched, excited · Antonyms: unenthused, unenthusiastic, uninterested, noncommital, lukewarm

verb
  1. participlepastpast participle of enthuse

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