'Excitable' definitions:
Definition of 'excitable'
From: WordNet
adjective
Easily excited [ant: unexcitable]
adjective
Capable of responding to stimuli [syn: excitable, irritable]
Definition of 'Excitable'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'excitable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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