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excitable, adj. 1. nervous, high-strung, emotional, flappable, fidgety, skittish, restless, restive; inflammatory, inflammable, volcanic, explosive, ebullient, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent; wrathful, violent, fierce; fiery, passionate, vehement, hot-blooded, high-spirited, fervid, fervent; demonstrative, enthusiastic, Sl. psyched; frantic, frenzied, furious, wild, feverish, rabid, hysterical, delirious.
2. impulsive, impetuous, precipitate, precipitative, impatient, hasty, rash, brash, heedless, reckless; uncontrollable, uncontrolled, ungovernable, irrepressible; mobile, quick, active, lively, spry, sprightly, mercurial.
3. testy, edgy, short, short-tempered, quick-tempered, short-fused, hot-headed; irascible, irritable, choleric, acerbic, cantankerous; moody, temperamental, sensitive, petulant, waspish, peevish.
excite, v. 1. incite, provoke, prod, poke, prick, goad, spur, prompt; instigate, look for trouble, Inf. start something; encourage, urge, abet, egg on, put up to; foment, agitate, commove, suscitate, impassion, Brit. Dial, kittle, arouse, stir up, work up, wind up, whip up, lash into a fury, Inf. psych up, fire up, heat up, Obs. calefy, enflame, enkindle, kindle, touch off, ignite the spark.
2. stimulate, animate, reanimate, whet, Inf. turn on, invigorate, motivate, inspirit, inspire, Inf. spark, galvanize, electrify, energize, rally, revive, enliven, liven up, hype up, awaken, wake up, waken, rouse, shake up, jolt, jog; activate, generate, affect, initiate, occasion, give rise to, start, Inf. get going; impel, induce, compel, constrain, move, press, drive, stir, fillip; elicit, evoke, raise, call forth, summon up, raise or sound the alarm; touch, impress, strike, penetrate, touch to the quick, rivet the attention, Inf. groove on, Sl. get off on.
3. ruffle, fluster, flurry, flutter, perturb, disturb, disquiet, discompose, disconcert, upset, make nervous; torment, persecute, needle, harass, bully, bullyrag.
4. exasperate, exacerbate, roil, pique, chafe, vex; annoy, irritate, aggravate, hector, nettle, plague, badger, pester.
excited, adj. 1. agitated, aroused, inflamed, en-flamed, keyed-up, high-strung, temperamental, feverish, overwrought, wrought-up, wound-up, worked-up, stirred-up, whipped-up, beside oneself, Inf. hot and bothered, Inf hot under the collar, Sl. hopped-up; disturbed, perturbed, upset, discomposed, disconcerted, distracted, ruffled, flustered, fluttered; nervous, edgy, on edge, apprehensive, tense, uneasy, restless, restive, fidgety, skittish; frantic, frenzied, wild, seething, maddened, crazed, delirious, hysterical, Sl. zonkers, Sl. out of one's skull or gourd.
2. impassioned, fervid, fervent, ardent, zealous, vehement, fiery, red-hot, hot; eager, enthusiastic, enthused, elated, intoxicated, ebullient, Sl. psyched; stimulated, animated, Inf. turned-on, invigorated, motivated, inspired, Inf. sparked, galvanized, electrified, energized, rallied, revived, enlivened, hyped-up, roused, jolted, jogged.
3. angry, incensed, vexed, exasperated; furious, outraged, blustering, foaming, fuming, raging, flaming; irritated, annoyed, aggravated, hectored, nettled, plagued, badgered, pestered, tormented, persecuted, needled, harassed, bullied.
4. brisk, active, lively, animated, energetic, spry, sprightly, dynamic, busy, spirited, bustling, smart, Inf. snappy, Inf. peppy, Inf. frisky; stormy, tumultuous, turbulent, volcanic, explosive.
excitement, n. 1. agitation, perturbation, excitation, violence, tension, unrest, trepidation, trepidity, disquiet, disquietude, ferment, fermentation, restlessness, fever, malaise, Archaic, conturbation; commotion, brouhaha, hurly-burly, hubbub, row, fuss, flurry, flutter, fluster, bustle, ado, to-do, stir, activity, scene, flare-up,
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