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单词 inexcitable
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inexcitableadj.

/ɪnɛkˈsʌɪtəb(ə)l/
Etymology: In sense 1 (stressed iˈnexcitable ), < Latin inexcitābilis, < in- (in- prefix4) + excitābilis ; in sense 2, < in- prefix4 + excitable adj.
rare.
1. From which one cannot be roused. Obsolete. (Cf. Seneca Epist. lxxxiii. 13 somnus inexcitabilis.)
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the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [adjective] > phlegmatic
phlegmatica1400
phlegmyc1450
sprightlessa1522
spiritless1595
unspirited1621
inexcitable?1624
pituitous1658
slow-going1825
soggy1896
?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Venus in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 99 What pleasure..letts Humor steepe Thy lidds, in this inexcitable sleepe?
1651 T. Stanley Moschus in Poems 48 A long obscure inexcitable sleep.
2. Not excitable; not liable to excitement.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > unexcitability > [adjective]
slowc1384
imperturbablea1475
sober-minded1534
well-staid1550
settled1557
sober1564
steady1602
unprovokable1646
good-tempered1685
inirritable1794
well-adjusted1809
unvolatile1823
inexcitable1828
unrufflable1828
churchwardenly1830
unruffable1837
unexcitable1839
unrousable1842
well-tempered1852
middle-aged1853
unsqueamish1893
unflappable1958
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 68/1 Animosities [have grown] tame, inert, and inexcitable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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