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excitable

Syllables: ex·cit·a·ble/ɪkˈsaɪtəbəl/

excitable adjective: easily excited.

Adjective

excitable (comparative more excitable, superlative most excitable)

  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.

excitable meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Assamese

excitable in Tamil

தூண்டிவிடத்தக்க, கிளறிவிடக்கூடிய, எளிதிற் சினங்கொள்கிற, எளிதில் உணர்ச்சி கொள்கிற

excitable in Malayalam

പെട്ടെന്നിളക്കുന്ന, ഉത്തേജിപ്പിക്കാവുന്ന, പെട്ടെന്നുണർത്താവുന്ന

excitable in Assamese

excitable, rush, unsteady, hyperactive, hyper, fickle-minded
উতনুৱা utonua

Examples of excitable in a sentence

  • There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.
  • Here, we report the development of a single-wavelength excitable Brainbow, UFObow, incorporating three newly developed blue-excitable FPs.
  • However, the fluxes of potassium (k+) and chlorine (Cl-) cause a hyperpolarization making the cellless excitable.

All 12 example sentences with excitable

Forms of excitable

comparativemore excitable
superlativemost excitable
alternative form (obsolete)exciteable

Origin of excitable

From excite + -able.

Words formed from excitable

Questions about excitable

What does excitable mean?
Excitable means easily excited.
What is excitable in Tamil?
Excitable in Tamil is தூண்டிவிடத்தக்க, கிளறிவிடக்கூடிய, எளிதிற் சினங்கொள்கிற. See Excitable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is excitable?
Excitable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce excitable?
Excitable is pronounced /ɪkˈsaɪtəbəl/.

Words near excitable in the dictionary

  1. excisosome
  2. excisosomes
  3. excist
  4. excitabilities
  5. excitability
  6. excitable
  7. excitableness
  8. excitably
  9. excitance
  10. excitances
  11. excitancy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excitable (page history and authors); excitable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excitable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); উতনুৱা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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