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Definition of Stimulating

1. Adjective. Rousing or quickening activity or the senses. "A stimulating discussion"

2. Adjective. That stimulates. "Stimulant phenomena"

3. Adjective. Making lively and cheerful. "The exhilarating effect of mountain air"

Definition of Stimulating

1. Adjective. Having a manner that stimulates. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of stimulate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stimulating

1. stimulate [v] - See also: stimulate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stimulating

stiming stimmed stimming stims stimulability stimulable stimulant stimulant drug stimulants stimulate

stimulated stimulated emission depletion microscope stimulated emission depletion microscopy stimulates stimulateth stimulating (current term) stimulatingly stimulation stimulations stimulative

stimulativeness stimulator stimulators stimulatory stimulatress stimuli stimulism stimulon stimulus stimulus generalisation

Literary usage of Stimulating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at by Catharine Esther Beecher (1843)
"Eating too much, eating too often, eating too fast, eating food and condiments that are too stimulating, eating food that is too warm or too cold, ..."

2. Oecd Economic Surveys: United Kingdom by OECD. (2005)
"Flexible childcare: ensuring cost-consciousness while stimulating innovation The working tax credit could be adjusted to strengthen support for childcare ..."

3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"... was most stimulating, MgCO» proved most toxic. Natural calcareous limestones produced ... stimulating effect is attributed to the radioactivity of the ..."

4. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"In / the stimulating electrode is the cathode; the threads of current which have started from the anode (the indifferent electrode) placed elsewhere, ..."

5. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"Du Bos is certainly an interesting and stimulating writer; but his very excursions into generality seem to have precluded him from studying any particular ..."

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