overexcitable
- a word derived from overexcite.
Example Sentences
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In other cases, you can actually hear what the authors had in mind, which you can’t always do amid overexcitable stagings.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
She has a teacher’s calm, appropriate to the series’ purpose, and a talent for interacting with sometimes overexcitable puppets; she seems interested in what they have to say, and natural in her reactions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2021
To an education secretary, he said, “You really are a very overexcitable individual. You need to write out 1,000 times, ‘I will behave myself at Prime Minister’s Questions.’
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2019
For the stories that I would write, except that everything was effervescent and inchoate in my overexcitable brain.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2013
It was found by Himly that when the retina is overexcitable every stimulus is raised in the spectrum scale of colours.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James
