Unexcitable

Quick meaning: Unexcitable is an adjective meaning Not excitable, not easily excited.

Meaning

Not excitable, not easily excited.

More Meanings

1. Not capable of being excited.

Example Sentences

But suppose that these pretended living Stones of the Temple of God were as unexcitable to Pride or Lust as the dead Stones of the walls of a Church […]

Isabella […] had been misled, as most inexperienced observers are in similar cases, by the tranquillity of Eliot’s manner; she respected and liked him exceedingly; but she thought him unexcitable, and incapable of passion.

Ordinarily the commandant of the fort was of a calm and unexcitable temperament. During the astounding events of that day and the day before he had kept his head cool; his judgment, if not correct, was the result of sober and earnest consideration.

1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume I, Section 12, 2. Of sensorial Exertion, p. 79, When the spirit of animation is thus exhausted by useless exertions, the organ becomes torpid or unexcitable into action, and a second fit of quiescence succeeds that of abundant activity.

Synonyms for unexcitable

Depending on context, synonyms include cool-headed, even-tempered, steady.

Antonyms for unexcitable

Common opposites include excitable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include steady, inexcitable, nonexcitable, subexcitable, unexcited, hypoexcitable.

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