EXCITABLE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for EXCITABLE?

Need another word that means the same as “excitable”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “excitable” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Excitable” are: irritable, temperamental, mercurial, volatile, emotional, sensitive, unstable, nervous, tense, brittle, edgy, jumpy, twitchy, skittish, unsettled, uneasy, neurotic

Excitable as an Adjective

Definitions of "Excitable" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “excitable” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• (of tissue or a cell) responsive to stimulation.
• Capable of responding to stimuli.
• Responding too readily to something new or stimulating; easily excited.
• Easily excited.

Synonyms of "Excitable" as an adjective (17 Words)

brittle	Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped. Glass is brittle.
edgy	At the forefront of a trend; experimental or avant-garde. Their songs combine good music and smart edgy ideas.
emotional	Of or pertaining to emotion. He was a strongly emotional young man.
irritable	Easily irritated or annoyed. She was tired and irritable.
jumpy	(of a person) anxious and uneasy. He was tired and jumpy.
mercurial	Of the planet Mercury. His mercurial temperament.
nervous	Of or relating to the nervous system. A sensitive nervous person.
neurotic	Characteristic of or affected by neurosis. He seemed a neurotic self obsessed character.
sensitive	Kept secret or with restrictions on disclosure to avoid endangering security. Sensitive skin.
skittish	(of an animal, especially a horse) nervous or excitable; easily scared. Skittish investors withdrew their money from equity markets.
temperamental	Likely to perform unpredictably. That beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute.
tense	Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles e g the vowel sound in beat. Tense piano strings.
twitchy	Nervous; anxious. A mouse with a twitchy nose.
uneasy	Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner. An uneasy coalition government.
unsettled	(of a bill) not yet paid. Unsettled territory.
unstable	Subject to change; variable. Everything was unstable following the coup.
volatile	Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures. Volatile solvents such as petroleum ether hexane and benzene.

Usage Examples of "Excitable" as an adjective

• These alkaloids act on nerve cells to make them more excitable.
• A rather excitable young man.

Associations of "Excitable" (30 Words)

constrained	Lacking spontaneity; not natural. A constrained smile.
digression	Wandering from the main path of a journey. Let s return to the main topic after that brief digression.
eerie	Strange and frightening. An uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods.
extrovert	Relating to denoting or typical of an extrovert. His extrovert personality made him the ideal host.
extroverted	Being concerned with the social and physical environment. She is extroverted confident and gives rousing lectures.
fitful	Occurring in spells and often abruptly. Fitful or interrupted sleep.
flighty	Guided by whim and fancy. Her mother was a flighty Southern belle.
garrulous	Full of trivial conversation. A garrulous cab driver.
gruesome	Extremely unpleasant. Gruesome evidence of human sacrifice.
impulsive	Proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus. The approaching waves contain an impulsive component.
jittery	Nervous or unable to relax. Caffeine makes me jittery.
lengthiness	Amount or degree or range to which something extends.
loquacious	Full of trivial conversation. Never loquacious Sarah was now totally lost for words.
loquacity	The quality of being wordy and talkative. He was renowned for loquacity.
nervous	Of or relating to the nervous system. A sensitive nervous person.
nervously	In an anxious or apprehensive manner. I was blushing and smiling nervously.
petulance	An irritable petulant feeling. A slight degree of petulance had crept into his voice.
scary	Uncannily striking or surprising. A scary movie.
skittish	(of an animal, especially a horse) nervous or excitable; easily scared. My skittish and immature mother.
spooky	Easily frightened; nervous. Some horses are more spooky by nature than others.
sporadic	Occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places; scattered or isolated. Sporadic fighting broke out.
strained	Of a mainly liquid substance having been strained to separate out any solid matter. She gave a strained laugh.
talkative	Unwisely talking too much. The talkative driver hadn t stopped chatting.
temper	Make more temperate acceptable or suitable by adding something else. She tempered her criticism.
temperament	The adjustment of intervals in tuning a piano or other musical instrument so as to fit the scale for use in different keys in equal temperament the octave consists of twelve equal semitones. He had begun to show signs of temperament.
tense	Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles e g the vowel sound in beat. Relations between the two neighbouring states were tense.
unnatural	Contrary to the ordinary course of nature; abnormal. The formal tone of the programmes caused them to sound stilted and unnatural.
uptight	Anxious or angry in a tense and overly controlled way. He is so uptight about everything.
verbose	Using or expressed in more words than are needed. Verbose and ineffective instructional methods.
wordy	Using or containing too many words. On the publication of Worcester s dictionary a wordy war arose.