excitable

Easily excited.

Adjective

  1. Easily excited.
    • The excitable puppy jumped all over the furniture.
  2. Able to respond to external stimuli.
  3. Able to be promoted to an excited state.

Origin

Etymology tree English excite Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English excitable From excite + -able.

Forms

more excitable most excitable exciteable

Related

excitability excite excited

Derived

excitableness excitably exciteableness hyperexcitable hypoexcitable inexcitable neuroexcitable nonexcitable overexcitable photoexcitable subexcitable superexcitable unexcitable