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# excitable

adjective (excitable, more excitable)

«excitable» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Excitable describes a person or animal that gets excited, nervous or upset very easily. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/#m1)
2. An excitable puppy or child gets wound up quickly and finds it hard to calm down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/#x1)
- My little cousin gets excitable before birthdays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/#x2)
- The excitable crowd cheered loudly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/#x3)
- Sugar does not really make children excitable, but parties do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/#x4)
- The excitable parrot squawked at every noise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/#x5)
- Take a deep breath if you feel too excitable. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/#x6)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «excitable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«excitable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/excitable.html) on Mova free.