Meaning of EXCITABLE
| Pronunciation: | | ik'sItubul
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- [adj] easily excited
- [adj] (physiology) capable of responding to stimuli
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| | Synonyms: | | high-keyed, irritable, nervous, quick, sensitive, skittish, spooky, warm |
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| | Antonyms: | | unexcitable | | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*cit"a*ble\, a. [L. excitabilis inciting: cf. F.
excitable.]
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible
of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
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| | Related Terms: | | agitable, all nerves, apprehensive, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, combustible, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, explosive, fearful, feisty, feverish, fidgety, fractious, frightened, highly emotional, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, hot-blooded, huffish, huffy, hysterical, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jumpy, mean, mercurial, mettlesome, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, ornery, overstrung, panicky, perturbable, perverse, prickly, quick-tempered, restive, restless, sensitive, skittery, skittish, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, startlish, temperamental, testy, touchy, ugly, uneasy, unstable, volatile, volcanic, waspish |
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