Antonyms for excitable

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ik-sahy-tuh-buhl

Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈsaɪ tə bəl

Definition of excitable

Origin : c.1600, from Late Latin excitabilis "inciting, animating," from excitare (see excite). Related: Excitability.

adj easily upset or inspired

Example sentences :

Mrs. Wititterly is of a most excitable nature, Sir Mulberry.
Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens

The mob state of mind is lurking still in the excitable American temperament.
Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry

But the Sorells, all the same, had some foreign and excitable blood in them.
Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Why do you bother your excitable, sick heart with that lunatic's prophecies?
Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker

The nervous, excitable soprano could not long bide in one place.
Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker

When two thirds of the way there an angry, excitable voice stopped them.
Extract from : « Pathfinder » by Alan Douglas

She isn't strong and she is excitable, and yet she isn't somehow what is called nervous at all.
Extract from : « Elsie Marley, Honey » by Joslyn Gray

Eliza was the most excitable and nervous of the three sisters.
Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Peter was an excitable German, who had been very good to the boys.
Extract from : « The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour » by George A. Warren

He was of an excitable disposition, and played high as the evening went on.
Extract from : « Through Three Campaigns » by G. A. Henty

Synonyms for excitable

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