excitable

English

Alternative forms

• exciteable (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English excite

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English excitable

From excite + -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsaɪtəbəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: ex‧cit‧a‧ble

Adjective

excitable (comparative more excitable, superlative most excitable)

1. Easily excited.

   The excitable puppy jumped all over the furniture.

2. (sciences) Able to respond to external stimuli.
3. (physics) Able to be promoted to an excited state.

Derived terms

• excitableness
• excitably
• exciteableness
• hyperexcitable
• hypoexcitable
• inexcitable
• neuroexcitable
• nonexcitable
• overexcitable
• photoexcitable
• subexcitable
• superexcitable
• unexcitable

Related terms

• excitability
• excite
• excited

Translations

easily excited

• Bulgarian: възбудим (bg) (văzbudim), раздразнителен (bg) (razdraznitelen)
• Catalan: excitable, entusiasmadís
• Finnish: innostuva (fi), helposti kiihtyvä, kiivas (fi)
• French: excitable (fr)
• Greek: ευέξαπτος (el) (evéxaptos)
• Irish: sochorraithe, soghríosaithe, so-lasta
• Manx: so-ghreesaghey
• Pannonian Rusyn: возбудлїви (vozbudljivi), возбудзуюци (vozbudzujuci)
• Portuguese: excitável
• Russian: возбуди́мый (ru) (vozbudímyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: узбудљив

  Latin: uzbudljiv (sh)

• Slovak: prchký
• Spanish: excitable (es)

French

Etymology

From Late Latin excitabĭlis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.si.tabl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

excitable (plural excitables)

1. excitable

Further reading

• “excitable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin excītābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡsθiˈtable/ [eɣ̞s.θiˈt̪a.β̞le] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /eɡsiˈtable/ [eɣ̞.siˈt̪a.β̞le] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: ex‧ci‧ta‧ble

Adjective

excitable m or f (masculine and feminine plural excitables)

1. excitable

Derived terms

• excitabilidad

Related terms

• excitar

Further reading

• “excitable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025