excitable
adjective
easily excited.
unexcitable
-
a word derived from
excitable.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Merkel, who served as chancellor from 2005 through 2021, was for years treated as the great grown-up of Western politics: steady, pragmatic, reassuringly unexcitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Rendon, a 12-year veteran who enjoyed a scheduled day off Wednesday, is famously unexcitable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Male rivals struggle to position themselves against Ms. Merkel, whose unexcitable and deliberative style has made the fist-banging swagger of her predecessors a parody of the past.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2017
Trivedi is a composed man with heavy-lidded eyes and an unexcitable manner of speech.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2015
He was an impartial and unexcitable umpire at all our bedlam sporting events, a master fire builder and extinguisher, and an expert, uncontemptuous first-aid man.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
