adj
Meaning 1
Easily excited.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The excitable puppy jumped all over the furniture.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
excitable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪkˈsaɪtəbəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Able to respond to external stimuli.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Able to be promoted to an excited state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
easily excited
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unexcitable
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
capable of responding to stimuli
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: irritable
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: възбудим (vǎzbudim) — easily excited
- Bulgarian: раздразнителен (razdraznitelen) — easily excited
- Catalan: excitable — easily excited
- Catalan: entusiasmadís — easily excited
- Finnish: innostuva — easily excited
- Finnish: helposti kiihtyvä — easily excited
- Finnish: kiivas — easily excited
- French: excitable — easily excited
- Greek: ευέξαπτος (evéxaptos) — easily excited
- Irish: sochorraithe — easily excited
- Irish: soghríosaithe — easily excited
- Irish: so-lasta — easily excited
- Manx: so-ghreesaghey — easily excited
- Portuguese: excitável — easily excited
- Russian: возбуди́мый (vozbudímyj) — easily excited
- Slovak: prchký — easily excited
- Spanish: excitable — easily excited