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stimulatingadjective causing great emotional or mental stimulationenjoys the good food and stimulating conversation at his best friend's house breathtaking, charged, electric, electrifying, exciting, exhilarating, exhilarative, galvanic, galvanizing, hair-raising, heart-stopping, inspiring, intoxicating, kicky, mind-bending, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, rip-roaring, rousing, stirring, thrilling arresting, interesting, intriguing, provocative, tantalizing, titillatingabsorbing, engrossing, gripping, rivetingmoving, poignant, touchingenchanting, enthralling, fascinating, spellbindingdynamic, energetic, high-voltage, kinetic, lively, lusty unexciting boring, mind-numbing, tedious, tiresomedreary, dull, humdrum, monotonous, uninteresting having a renewing effect on the state of the body or minda brisk, stimulating walk on a bright, clear wintry day bracing, cordial, invigorating, refreshing, rejuvenating, restorative, reviving, stimulative, tonic, vital, vitalizing life-givingconditioning, strengtheninganimating, exhilarating, exhilarative, quickening, sharpcorrective, curative, curing, medicinal, rectifying, recuperative, reformative, reformatory, rehabilitative, remedial, remedying, reparative, therapeuticbeneficial, healthful, healthy, helpful, salubrious, salutary, wholesome deadening, debilitating, draining, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, numbing, sapping, weakening, wearyingdeleterious, injurious, perniciousinsalubrious, noxious, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome serving or likely to arouse a strong reactionan article containing a stimulating argument for raising, not lowering, the tax on gasoline charged, edgy, exciting, inciting, instigating, instigative, piquing, provocative, provoking explosive, fiery, incendiary, inflammatory, triggeringinducing, inspirational, inspiring, motivating, motivational, motivativejeering, taunting, teasingactivating, energizing, galvanizing, quickening, vitalizingangering, enraging, maddening, upsettingaggravating, annoying, bothersome, exasperating, galling, irksome, irritating, pesky, vexatious, vexing noninflammatory subduing stimulatingverbpresent participle of stimulateto give life, vigor, or spirit toresearch into alternative energy sources has been stimulated by this funding increase amping (up), animating, bracing, energizing, enlivening, filliping, firing, gingering (up), invigorating, jazzing (up), juicing up, jump-starting, livening (up), pepping (up), quickening, spiking, vitalizing, vivifying, zipping (up) arousing, awakening, awaking, raising, rousing, stirring, waking (up)activating, actuating, driving, impelling, motivating, motiving, moving, propellingcharging, electrifying, galvanizingenkindling, exciting, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, inflaming(also enflaming), instigating, kindling, provoking, setting off, sparking, triggering, turning on, whipping (up)abetting, boosting, buoying, cheering, emboldening, fortifying, heartening, infusing, inspiring, lifting, rallying, steeling, strengtheningreactivating, reanimating, reawakening, reawaking, recharging, recreating, reenergizing(or re-energizing), refreshening, refreshing, regenerating, reinvigorating, rejuvenating, rekindling, renewing, restimulating, resurrecting, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving dampening, damping, deadening, dulling, killing burning out, debilitating, doing in, draining, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, harassing, kayoing, knocking out, sapping, tuckering (out), undermining, washing out, weakening, wearing, wearing out, wearyingchecking, curbing, inhibiting, jading, quelling, quenching, repressing, restraining, slowing, stilling, stunting, suppressingdaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting to rouse to strong feeling or actionthe government crackdown has only stimulated the citizenry to more acts of violence arousing, encouraging, exciting, firing (up), impassioning, inciting, instigating, moving, piquing, provoking, revving (up), sparking, stirring fanning, igniting, inflaming(also enflaming), kindling, triggeringactivating, animating, driving, energizing, galvanizing, inducing, inspiring, keying (up), motivating, motiving, pumping up, quickening, setting off, vitalizingabetting, fermenting, fomenting, raising, whipping (up)angering, enraging, maddening, upsettingjeering, taunting, teasingaggravating, annoying, bothering, exasperating, galling, getting, irritating, vexing building a fire under calming, soothing, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)appeasing, mollifying, pacifying, placating in 1645 |