Excitable

Synonyms for "excitable" (86 found)

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Closest matches (18)

Adjective(1 words)

agitableall nervesapprehensive bearish bitchy cankered cantankerous churlish combustible crabbed cranky crosscross grainedcross-grained crusty cussed disagreeable

Strong matches (25)

edgy emotionalemotionally unstableeruptive explosive fearful feisty feverish fidgety fiery fractious frantic frightenedhigh spiritedhigh strunghigh-mettled high-spirited high-strunghighly emotionalhot-blooded

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huffish huffy

Adjective(2 words)

emotional high-strung

Verb(1 words)

flurried

Related words (43)

hysterical inflammable irascible irritable jumpy mean mercurial mettlesomenerves on edgenervous nervyon edgeornery overstrung panicky perturbable perverse prickly quick quick-tempered

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restive restless sensitive skittery skittish snappish spiteful spleeny splenetic startlish temperamental testy touchy ugly uneasy unstable volatile volcanic waspish

Adjective(4 words)

reactive responsive stimulus-responsive temperamental

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

4 entries

biological propertycellular propertypersonality traitphysiological property

More specific

4 entries

impulsivemuscle tissueneuronal tissueoverreactive

Collocations

6 entries

excitable behaviorexcitable membraneexcitable neuronsexcitable personalityexcitable temperamentexcitable tissue

Inflections

2 entries

more excitablemost excitable

Derivations

2 entries

excitability excitably

Antonyms

1 entries

unexcitable

similar

8 entries

flighty high-keyed nervous quick sensitive skittish spooky warm

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The excitable puppy jumped all over the furniture.

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