STIMULATING • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Stimulating

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/stˈɪmjəlˌeɪtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Stimulate v. t. (past & past part. stimulated; pres. part. stimulating)

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. "To excite and stimulate us thereunto."

(Physiol.) To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.

Synonyms: To animate; incite; encourage; impel; urge; instigate; irritate; exasperate; incense.

See images of 'Stimulating'

Etymology of 'Stimulating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Stimulating" Quotes from Famous Books

... "The stimulating effect of this may have been the cause for the assault upon me in the Inner Lobby, which has afforded the stale House some little excitement, which has been the salvation of the silly season. So many papers have given startling ...

— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss

... interests of the child which are aroused through the use of the books be utilized not merely in history, but in geography, nature study, reading, language, constructive work, and art. If this is done, subjects which too long have been isolated from the interests of real life, will become the means of stimulating and enriching all of the ...

— The Later Cave-Men • Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

... hundred histories, that we may please our fancy by supposing the features under the influence of different kinds of emotion. Every one must have in recollection countenances of this kind, which, from a captivating and stimulating originality of expression, abide longer in the memory, and are more seductive to the imagination, than ever ...

— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

... time she still attended school, but did housework out of school hours. When she was older, she was employed as a maid in the house of a very kind and responsive couple, who gave her free access to their interesting library, where she read eagerly. A trip to Europe had been especially stimulating. Her employer was considerate, and tried to make it possible for her ...

— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt

... is best known as a writer of flashing, paradoxical essays on anything and everything, like Tremendous Trifles (1909), Varied Types (1905), and All Things Considered (1910). But he is also a stimulating critic; a keen appraiser, as in his volume Heretics (1905) and his analytical studies of Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, and George Bernard Shaw; a writer of strange and grotesque romances like The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1906), The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), which Chesterton himself ...

— Modern British Poetry • Various

More quotes...