Word Meanings - STIMULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of , as by electricity. Syn. -- To animate; incite; encourage; impel; urge; instigate; irritate; exasperate; incense. (more info) 1. To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse,

Additional info about word: STIMULATE

To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of , as by electricity. Syn. -- To animate; incite; encourage; impel; urge; instigate; irritate; exasperate; incense. (more info) 1. 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. Dr. J. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STIMULATE)

• Animate
• Enliven
• Inspirit
• instigate
• quicken
• exhilarate
• embolden
• rouse
• revivify
• cheer
• gladden
• stir
• prompt
• incite
• stimulate
• Arouse
• Stir
• excite
• disturb
• animate
• wake up
• alarm
• provoke
• Quicken
• Accelerate
• revive
• reinvigorate
• resuscitate
• vivify
• hurry
• hasten
• urge
• promote
• expedite
• Spur
• Incite
• goad
• Instigate
• impel
• Agitate
• awaken
• arouse
• budge
• raise
• ruffle

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STIMULATE)

• Compose
• embolden
• reassure
• rally

Related words: (words related to STIMULATE)

• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• REVIVEMENT
  Revival.
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• BUDGE
  To move off; to stir; to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Shak.
• REVIVE
  To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (more info) 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• HURRY-SKURRY
  Confusedly; in a bustle. Gray.
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• BUDGET
  1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions. 2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• WHURRY
  To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.