excitable

«excitable» in Mova's school dictionary: Excitable describes a person or animal that gets excited… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (excitable, more excitable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Excitable describes a person or animal that gets excited, nervous or upset very easily. tree →

2) An excitable puppy or child gets wound up quickly and finds it hard to calm down. tree →

sense in the lessons

Describing characters and pets in stories and everyday life. Phrases: an excitable puppy, easily excitable, get excitable.

examples

• Our excitable puppy jumps on everyone. tree →
• My little cousin gets excitable before birthdays. tree →
• The excitable crowd cheered loudly. tree →
• Sugar does not really make children excitable, but parties do. tree →
• The excitable parrot squawked at every noise. tree →
• Take a deep breath if you feel too excitable. tree →

note

Not the same as exciting: an exciting film is fun; an excitable person gets excited easily. Myth: sugar makes children hyper — studies mostly find the excitement comes from the party setting.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «excitable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.