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EXCITABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easily excited
Classified under:
Similar:
high-keyed ((of persons) excitable)
quick; warm (easily aroused or excited)
flighty; nervous; skittish; spooky (unpredictably excitable (especially of horses))
Antonym:
unexcitable (not easily excited)
Derivation:
excitability; excitableness (being easily excited)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of responding to stimuli
Synonyms:
excitable; irritable
Classified under:
Similar:
sensitive (responsive to physical stimuli)
Domain category:
physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)
Context examples:
Rachel—who is a very good girl, but of an excitable Welsh temperament—had a sharp touch of brain-fever, and goes about the house now—or did until yesterday—like a black-eyed shadow of her former self.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was quite against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily controlled when she has made up her mind on a point.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As to his character, he was reliable on duty, but a wild, desperate fellow off the deck of his ship—hot-headed, excitable, but loyal, honest, and kind-hearted.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If there be anything behind this instinct it will be valuable to trace it afterwards accurately, so I had better commence to do so, therefore— R. M. Renfield, ætat 59. Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mme. Fournaye, who is of Creole origin, is of an extremely excitable nature, and has suffered in the past from attacks of jealousy which have amounted to frenzy.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He shrugged his shoulders in ungracious acquiescence, while our visitor in hurried words and with much excitable gesticulation poured forth his story.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
