Excitable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excitable \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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excitable
       adj 1: easily excited [ant: {unexcitable}]
       2: capable of responding to stimuli [syn: {irritable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "excitable":
     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, high-mettled,
     high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, 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