Excitable

Definitions: Excitable

Excitable

Adjective

1. Easily excited.

2. (physiology) capable of responding to stimuli.

Date "excitable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Etymology: Excitable \Ex*cit"a*ble\, adjective. [Latin expression excitabilis inciting: compare to the French expression excitable.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Excitable

Synonym: irritable (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: unexcitable (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitability	Adjective: excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state; high-strung; irritable; (irascible); impatient, intolerant.
Irascibility	Adjective: irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable; thin-skinned; (sensitive); fretful, fidgety; on the fret.
Sensibility	Adjective: sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to, impassionable, gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Excitable

English words defined with "excitable": As mad as a March Hare ♦ excitable area ♦ high-keyed, Hot-livered ♦ Impassionable, In hot water ♦ nervous ♦ skittish, spooky. (references)

Specialty definitions using "excitable": Calcium Channel Agonists, Calcium Channels, L-Type ♦ ectopic focus, ectopic site, Electrodiagnosis ♦ Sodium-Calcium Exchanger. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Excitable" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (excitable, nervous), Spanish (excitable, high strung, highly strung, hotheaded, nervy, temperamental, uncool).

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Excitable boy, they all said (Excitable Boy; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & LeRoy P. Marinell) Well, he's just an excitable boy (Excitable Boy; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & LeRoy P. Marinell)
Movie/TV Titles	Excitable (1992)
Song Titles	Excitable Boy (performing artist: Warren Zevon)
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Domain	Title
Books	Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes (3rd Edition) (reference) Ionic Channels of Excitable Membranes (reference) Methods in the Neurosciences, Vol. 5, Intracellular Perfusion of Excitable Cells (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Excitable Boy (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	We are excitable.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is called an inhibitory neurotransmitter because it tends to make cells less excitable. (references)
		Calcium is an important substance in certain cells of the body, the so-called excitable cells in muscles and the nervous system. (references)
		Now, using imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists can actually visualize increased activity in the brain's cortex when an individual feels phantom pain. When study participants move the stump of an amputated limb, neurons in the brain remain dynamic and excitable. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Excitable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Excitable" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	134	27,488

Expression using "excitable": excitable area. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "excitable": over-excitable.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "excitable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nervoz (edgy, fidgety, irritable, jittery, nervous, neural, restless), i ngacmueshëm (harassing). (various references)

Arabic		‏سريع الانفعال (explosive), ‏إهتياجي (spasmodic). (various references)

Bulgarian		раздразнителен (bad tempered, chippy, choleric, edgy, explosive, fretful, gingery, ill, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, irascible, irritable, liverish, livery, nervous, nervy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, raspy, ratty, snappish, stroppy, techy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), възбудим (irritable). (various references)

Chinese		可激发. (various references)

Czech		vzrušivý (excitative, excitatory), vznìtlivý (combustible, fiery, hot tempered, inflammable, nervy, quick tempered, stormy), prchlivý (choleric, fiery, hasty, hotheaded, irascible), dráždivý (irritable, irritant, poignant, sore, stimulant, stimulating). (various references)

Farsi		قابل تهییج , قابل تحریک , برانگیختنی . (various references)

French		excitable, nerveux. (various references)

German		reizbar (bilious, excitably, grumpy, inflammable, irascible, irascibly, irritable, irritably, nervous, peevish, prickly, sensitive, snappy, testy, touchy, waspish). (various references)

Greek		ευερέθιστοσ (edgy, fretter, passionate, peevish, petulant, prickly, testy, touchy, waspish). (various references)

Hebrew		�'רי (irritable), ר�'יש (sensitive, squeamish, susceptible, thinskinned, touchy), � וח ל�"תר�'ש. (various references)

Hungarian		robbanékony (choleric, detonable, explosive, fiery, irritable, potentially explosive, vehement, volcanic), izgulékony (combustible, fluttery, jumpy, nervy), ingerlékeny (be irritated, bilious, fractious, fretful, grumpy, highly strung, hot tempered, hot-tempered, ill tempered, inflammable, irascible, irritable, like a bear with a sore head, nervous, nettlesome, neurotic, peevish, peppery, perverse, petulant, prickly, techy, testy, tetchy), felkavarható. (various references)

Indonesian		dapat dirangsang (excitability). (various references)

Italian		irritabile (bad tempered, crotchety, edgy, fretful, irritable, jittery, petulant, snappish, techy, testy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		熱し�"い . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ねっしやすい. (various references)

Manx		so-ghreesaghey (combustible, inflammable), greesaghtagh. (various references)

Norwegian		pirrelig, nervøs (agitated, fraught, jittery, jumpy, nervous). (various references)

Pig Latin		excitableay

Portuguese		excitável (inflammable cargo, nervous, skittish, temperamental), irritabilidade (crustiness, irascible, irritability, irritable, petulance, touchiness). (various references)

Romanian		excitabil (inflammable), emotiv (emotional, emotive, intense), iritabil (choleric, combustible, crabbed, crusty, fretful, gusty, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jumpy, petulaht, petulant, testy, tetchy, ticklish, waspy), impresionabil (impressionable, responsive, susceptible). (various references)

Russian		возбудимый (nervous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zapaljiv (combustible, flammable, incendiary, inflammable), nadraživ (irritable), koji se lako uzbudi. (various references)

Spanish		excitable (high strung, highly strung, hotheaded, nervy, temperamental, uncool). (various references)

Swedish		lättretlig (edgy, irascible, irritable, liverish, livery), hetsig (fiery, hot, hot-headed, passionate, peppery, warm). (various references)

Turkish		telaşlı (bustling, discomposedly, disconcerted, disconcerting, excited, feverish, flurried, fussy, hectic, hurried, uptight), kolay heyecanlanan, heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excited, exciting, febrile, feverish, glowing, gone, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, spirited, stormy, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous). (various references)

Ukranian		збудливий (aphrodisiac, excitant, inflammatory, intoxicating, stimulant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "excitable": excitableness, excitablenesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "excitable": hyperexcitable, unexcitable. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Excitable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ectable, eggceptable, encashable, exceptable, excutable, exitable. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "excitable" (pronounced iksī"tubul)
5	-t u b u l	acceptable, accountable, adaptable, adjustable, adoptable, attributable, charitable, collectible, comfortable, compatible, constable, contemptible, contestable, convertible, copyrightable, countable, creditable, debatable, deductible, delectable, detectable, digestible, discountable, disreputable, eatable, electable, equitable, exportable, forfeitable, forgettable, habitable, harvestable, heritable, hospitable, imitable, immutable, imperceptible, implantable, incompatible, incontrovertible, indestructible, indisputable, indomitable, inequitable, inevitable, inexhaustible, inflatable, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, inscrutable, insupportable, insurmountable, interruptible, intractable, investable, irrefutable, irresistible, irritable, lamentable, marketable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, notable, palatable, patentable, perceptible, portable, potable, predictable, presentable, preventable, printable, profitable, prosecutable, quotable, redoubtable, regrettable, rentable, repeatable, reportable, reputable, resettable, respectable, retractable, suggestible, suitable, supportable, susceptible, tractable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unbeatable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, undetectable, unelectable, unforgettable, uninhabitable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unsuitable, unsupportable, vegetable, veritable.
4	-u b u l	abominable, accessible, achievable, actionable, addressable, admirable, admissible, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, attainable, audible, available, avoidable, bankable, bearable, believable, billable, biodegradable, breakable, buildable, burnable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, classifiable, collapsible, Combinable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, consumable, controllable, credible, crucible, culpable, curable, defensible, definable, degradable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, determinable, developable, disagreeable, discernible, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, drinkable, drivable, durable, edible, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enforceable, enjoyable, enviable, equable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, extendable, extendible, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, forcible, foreseeable, forgivable, formidable, fungible, fusible, gullible, hon, honorable, horrible, identifiable, illegible, imaginable, immiscible, immovable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, impermissible, implacable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incorrigible, incredible, incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indispensable, indistinguishable, indivisible, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inescapable, inexcusable, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflexible, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, intolerable, invaluable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, issuable, justifiable, knowledgeable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, moldable, movable, navigable, negligible, negotiable, noncallable, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palpable, parable, passable, payable, peaceable, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, possible, practicable, preferable, probable, programmable, provable, punishable, questionable, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, reducible, refundable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, repairable, repayable, replaceable, reprehensible, resealable, responsible, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, salable, saleable, salvageable, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, sizable, sizeable, sociable, soluble, solvable, spendable, submersible, survivable, sustainable, syllable, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, tolerable, traceable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, tunable, typeable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbelievable, unbuildable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstoppable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, variable, venerable, verifiable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, washable, wearable, winnable, workable.
3	-b u l	able, amble, assemble, babble, Babel, bauble, bible, bramble, bubble, Bumble, cable, cobble, coble, corbel, crumble, cymbal, dabble, Dibble, disable, disassemble, dissemble, double, Drabble, dribble, enable, enfeeble, ennoble, ensemble, fable, feeble, foible, fumble, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, hardscrabble, herbal, hobble, humble, ignoble, immeasurable, immobile, intertribal, jumble, kibble, label, libel, marble, mislabel, mobile, mumble, nibble, nimble, noble, nonverbal, pebble, preamble, psychobabble, quibble, rabble, ramble, reassemble, rebel, redouble, relabel, resemble, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, shamble, Sibyl, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, symbol, table, thimble, timetable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, turntable, umbel, unable, unscramble, unserviceable, unstable, valuable, verbal, wamble, wobble.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-l-t-x"
	-1 letter: celibate, citeable.
	-2 letters: citable.
	-3 letters: albeit, albite, atelic, bailee, cablet, excite, lexica.
	-4 letters: abele, axile, axite, belie, betel, blate, bleat, blite, cable, calix, ceiba, celeb, cleat, eclat, elate, elect, elite, exact, exalt, excel, exile, ileac, ixtle, latex, table, telae, telex, telia, telic, tical, xebec.
	-5 letters: abet, able, alec, alee, alit, axel, axil, axle, bail, bait.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-l-t-x"
	+1 letter: extricable.
	+2 letters: unexcitable.
	+3 letters: inextricable.
	+4 letters: exceptionable, exceptionably, excitableness.
	+5 letters: excitabilities, hyperexcitable.
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