excitable

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: This is normally prevented by a tiny messenger substance known as " GABA " which makes the nerve cells less excitable.

Modifies a noun

• temperament: Mr. Soames was a tall, spare man, of a nervous and excitable temperament.
• chap: Willow is a very excitable little chap and he loves nothing more than charging around and not planning were he is going to land.
• teenager: I much prefer the calmer, sensitive and perceptive nearly twenty-something than the excitable temperamental teenager.
• tissue: The maintenance of a constant free ionized calcium concentration is biologically important for the function of excitable tissues.
• crowd: Closing the set, Edinburgh man Gordon Brunton took on what was now a highly excitable crowd.
• medium: Professor Brindley is also involved with studies of the general behavior of ` excitable media ' .

Modifying Another Word

• highly: You didn't actual seem too drunk - just highly excitable.
• rather: Friend the Foreign Secretary were made after the particular document that has been the subject of some rather excitable media speculation this morning.
• very: Very excitable, very little regard for human life.
• so: Shem is something of a nagging wife to Adam, often trying to suggest his rebel chum try not to be quite so excitable.
• quite: We usually start her off by lunging her, she can still be quite excitable!
• too: Tulips The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.

Used with adjective complement

• become: This causes the membrane potential to become more negative and results in muscle and nerve cells becoming less excitable.
• get: When he gets even more excitable he reminds you of Robin Williams.