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- Dictionaryexcitable/ɪkˈsʌɪtəbl/
adjective
- 1. responding too readily to something new or stimulating; easily excited: "a rather excitable young man"
- 2. (of tissue or a cell) responsive to stimulation: "these alkaloids act on nerve cells to make them more excitable"
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Learn the meaning of excitable, a word that describes something or someone that is easily excited or irritated. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases of excitable.
Excitable means easily and often becoming excited, or tending to react quickly and strongly to things. Learn more about the word, its synonyms, antonyms, and usage in sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Someone who's excitable easily becomes excited, enthusiastic, or eager. A five-year-old will be especially excitable at her own birthday party. When you describe someone as excitable, you'll usually mean it as a mild criticism — the person is easily overstimulated, and becomes excited far too readily. Passing out candy in an elementary school ...
Excitable definition: easily excited. See examples of EXCITABLE used in a sentence.
easily and often becoming excited: an excitable child. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming too excited and easily upset. ado. ant. antsy. at the end of your rope idiom. be in a whirl idiom.
Excitable means likely to become easily excited, especially people or animals. Learn how to use this adjective with pronunciation, pictures, synonyms and collocations.
Excitable means behaving in a nervous way and becoming excited easily. Learn more about the word frequency, pronunciation, collocations, and usage of excitable in British and American English.
