Meaning & use
super exciting
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Meaning
adjectivenot comparableinformal
extremely exciting; causing a lot of enthusiasm or eagerness.
Grammar: Used before a noun or after a linking verb: a super exciting game / The game was super exciting.
Patterns
- be super exciting
- a super exciting experience
- super exciting news
We're going to Disneyland next week — it's super exciting!
The final match was super exciting and went into extra time.
She got a super exciting job offer in New York.
Common combinations
- super exciting news
- I have super exciting news: I'm getting married!
- super exciting time
- It's a super exciting time to be a student here.
- look super exciting
- The new roller coaster looks super exciting.
Synonyms and how they differ
- thrilling
- Thrilling is more formal and suggests a strong, almost dramatic excitement; 'super exciting' is casual and mild.
- very exciting
- This is the neutral, standard way to say the same thing; use it in formal writing.
Opposites
Word family
- exciting adjective
- The base adjective meaning causing excitement.
- excited adjective
- Describes how a person feels: I'm excited about the trip.
- excitement noun
- The feeling of being excited.
Commonly confused: super exciting or super excited?
super exciting vs super excited
'Super excited' describes a person's feeling (I'm super excited), while 'super exciting' describes the thing that causes the feeling (The news is super exciting).
Practice
Which sentence uses 'super exciting' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Super exciting' describes the thing that causes excitement, so 'The concert is super exciting' is correct. Option 0 is wrong because a person feels 'excited,' not 'exciting.' Option 2 wrongly uses 'excited' for a thing. Option 3 is wrong because 'exciting' cannot describe a person's feeling here.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “super exciting”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.