1.
2.
[syn: excitable, irritable]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
excitable
adj 1: easily excited [ant: unexcitable]
2: capable of responding to stimuli [syn: excitable,
irritable]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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