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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Excitable \Ex*cit"a*ble\, adjective [L. excitabilis inciting: cf. F. excitable.] Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
excitable
adjective
1: easily excited [ant: {unexcitable}]
2: capable of responding to stimuli [syn: {irritable}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "excitable": agitable, all nerves, apprehensive, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, combustible, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, explosive, fearful, feisty, feverish, fidgety, fractious, frightened, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot-blooded, huffish, huffy, hysterical, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jumpy, mean, mercurial, mettlesome, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, ornery, overstrung, panicky, perturbable, perverse, prickly, quick-tempered, restive, restless, sensitive, skittery, skittish, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, startlish, temperamental, testy, touchy, ugly, uneasy, unstable, volatile, volcanic, waspish
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