单词 | over-excitable |
释义 | over-excitableadj. Prone to or capable of excessive excitement; easily over-excited. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [adjective] > over-excitable over-excitable1836 1836 H. Taylor Statesman xi. 78 One who should feel himself to be over-exciteable in the transaction of business. 1862 M. Oliphant Life E. Irving 308 Whether Chalmers conclusion..was shared by the Edinburgh public, seems very doubtful; for..that public, not overexcitable, crowded its streets in the early dawn. 1914 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 11 654 [He] startled an over-excitable if not over-imaginative world by accepting the possibility of a laboratory creation of life. 1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxv. 247 Fay, a little insane, or ‘over-excitable’. 2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 3 Aug. 3 It was the over-excitable over-60s causing most of the commotion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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