Word Meanings - STIRRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. Southey. Syn. -- Animating; arousing;

Additional info about word: STIRRING

Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. Southey. Syn. -- Animating; arousing; awakening; stimulating; quickening; exciting.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STIRRING)

• Eventful
• Remarkable
• memorable
• signal
• important
• marked
• noted
• critical
• stirring
• notable
• Thrilling
• Arousing
• exciting
• affecting
• pleasing
• Vivid
• Bright
• brilliant
• luminous
• resplendent
• lustrous
• radiant
• graphic
• clear
• lively
• animated
• striking
• glowing
• sunny
• bright
• scintillant

Related words: (words related to STIRRING)

• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• NOTUM
  The back.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• GLOWLAMP
  An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• NOTELET
  A little or short note; a billet.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
  Pertaining to petrography.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• PURPURIPAROUS
  Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
  Pantographic. See Pantograph.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• PHONOTYPY
  A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
• PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
• SEBIPAROUS
  See SEBIFEROUS
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.