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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «excitable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excitable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.