different between exciting vs groovy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sa?t??/

Verb

exciting

1. present participle of excite

Adjective

exciting (comparative more exciting, superlative most exciting)

1. creating or producing excitement

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:exciting

Derived terms

• excitingness
• excitingly

Translations

Noun

exciting (plural excitings)

1. The process of something becoming excited; excitation.
   • 1855, George Herbert, The Complete Works of George Herbert

     But parents and masters should make haste in this, as to a great purchase for their children and servants; which while they defer, both sides suffer; the one, in wanting many excitings of grace, the other, in being worse served and obeyed.

English

Alternative forms

• groovey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???uvi/
• Rhymes: -u?vi

Etymology 1

groove +? -y

Adjective

groovy (comparative groovier, superlative grooviest)

1. Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.

   The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.

2. (dated) Set in one's ways.
   • 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon

     She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the phrase in the groove, originally in reference to the grooves of an early phonograph record.

Adjective

groovy (comparative groovier, superlative grooviest)

1. (dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable. [popular in the 1940s and again in the 1960s-1970s]

Derived terms

• grooviness

Translations

Noun

groovy (plural groovies)

1. (dated, slang) A trendy and fashionable person.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989