1. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
   "his face all aroused with excitement";
   - ablaze, aflame
    
2. Feeling great sexual desire
   "feeling aroused";
   - steamy, turned on
    
3. Aroused to action
   "the aroused opposition"
    
4. Brought to a state of great tension
   "all aroused for a fight";
   - wound up
    
5. (of persons) excessively affected by emotion
   "he would become aroused over nothing at all";
   - emotional, excited, worked up

1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
   "arouse pity";
   - elicit, enkindle [literary], kindle, evoke, raise, provoke
    
2. Cause to become awake or conscious
   "The alarm clock aroused the entire household";
   - awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up
    
3. Cause to be alert and energetic
   "The coffee aroused the sleepy students";
   - stimulate, brace, energize, energise [Brit], perk up, stir
    
4. To evoke sexual feelings
   "This movie usually arouses the male audience";
   - excite, turn on, wind up
    
5. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
   "The spell aroused the spirits";
   - raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, call down, bring up, call forth

See also: agitated, awakened, passionate, sexy [informal], tense, wrought-up

Type of: affect, alter, call up, change, create, excite, make, modify, shake, shake up, stir, summon

Encyclopedia: Aroused