Excitable [adjective]

Definition of Excitable:

easily upset or inspired

Synonyms of Excitable:

● Restless

● Fidgety

● Demonstrative

● Impulsive

● High-strung

● Fiery

● Hysterical

● Skittish

● Temperamental

● Edgy

● Emotional

● Enthusiastic

● Fierce

● Hasty

● Hot-tempered

● Impatient

● Impetuous

● Inflammable

● Intolerant

● Irascible

● Mercurial

● Moody

● Nervous

● Neurotic

● Passionate

● Peevish

● Quick

● Quick-tempered

● Rash

● Reckless

● Sensitive

● Susceptible

● Testy

● Touchy

● Uncontrolled

● Uneasy

● Vehement

● Violent

● Volatile

● Agitable

● Alarmable

● Galvanic

● Hot-headed

● Overzealous

● Short fused

● Volcanic


Opposite/Antonyms of Excitable:

● Unexcitable

● Insensitive

● Easy-going

● Easy

● Calm

● Cool

● Cold

● Uninspired

● Passive

● Laid-back


Sentence/Example of Excitable:

He is of so excitable a constitution, that his faculties being so far confused is the best thing, perhaps, that could be.

I sit at home nearly all day, and Rubinstein, who leads rather an excitable life, cannot sufficiently marvel at my industry.

There is a false hydrophobia observed in excitable persons that have been bitten by a dog thought to be mad.

His manner was sometimes excitable, as we have seen above; but usually he was like what gentlemen with us desire to be.

As I ran by the side of the excitable fishers, I urged upon one or two of them the wisdom and duty of preventing a conflict.

A breath, and these sullen, excitable men would hurl themselves upon him.

But it becomes a more serious matter when learned men employ inflated language in addressing ignorant and excitable audiences.

He was not the least angry; it was not the same woman that he was looking at —that thin, excitable little doll of those days.

All the Wollstonecrafts inherited a peculiarly excitable temperament.

She should not be too excitable and yet she ought to be keen.