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Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

Not susceptible of excitement; dull; lifeless; torpid.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.

Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible. Milton.

Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

The quality of being inexcitable; insusceptibility to excitement.

Excitable; irritable; irascible; easily provoked; as, an inflammable temper. Inflammable air, the old chemical name for hydrogen.

To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person. Shak.

glish Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright.

Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. Testament of Love. The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne.

Sensitive; excitable; timid. Our aristocratic class does not firmly protest against the unfair treatment of Irish Catholics, because it is nervous about the land. M. Arnold. Nervous fever (Med.), a low form of fever characterized by great disturbance of the nervous system, as evinced by delirium, or stupor, disordered…

r the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. Mirth, and youth, and warm desire! Milton. Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart. Pope. They say he's warm man and does not care to be madAddison. I had been none of the warmest of partisans. Hawthor…