Stimulant
['stɪmjʊl(ə)nt] or ['stɪmjələnt]
Definition
(noun.) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process.
(adj.) that stimulates; 'stimulant phenomena' .
Edited by Lilian--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Serving to stimulate.
(a.) Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.
(n.) That which stimulates, provokes, or excites.
(n.) An agent which produces a temporary increase of vital activity in the organism, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a stimulant.
Typed by Bartholdi
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Stimulating, exciting, stimulative.
n. [1]. Stimulating medicine.[2]. Incentive, STIMULUS.
Typed by Jed
Definition
adj. stimulating: increasing or exciting vital action.—n. anything that stimulates or excites: a stimulating medicine that increases the activity of the vital functions generally or of one system or organ.—v.t. Stim′ulāte to prick with anything sharp: to incite: to instigate: (physiol.) to produce increased action in.—n. Stimulā′tion act of stimulating or condition of being stimulated.—adj. Stim′ulātive tending to stimulate.—n. that which stimulates or excites.—ns. Stim′ulātor one who stimulates:—fem. Stim′ulātress; Stim′ulism the practice of treating diseases by stimulation; Stim′ūlus a goad: anything that rouses the mind or that excites to action: a stimulant:—pl. Stim′ulī.
Typist: Penelope
Examples
- The stimulant influence of the opium had got him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I said, 'You positively refuse to try the stimulant treatment? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The stimulant is Lammle's voice. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- By great good fortune Twemlow receives a stimulant at this critical instant. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She had to draw upon this thought, as upon some fiery stimulant, to keep up her part in the scene toward which Rosedale was too frankly tending. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In other words, I provided the necessary stimulant for strengthening Anne Catherick to perform the journey to London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Then to me, We will take a little stimulant. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There really WAS a certain stimulant in self-destruction, for him--especially when it was translated spiritually. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish and horror, finds in the very terror of his doom a strong stimulant and tonic. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'm going to write to my father, and I must have a stimulant, or I shan't be able to pitch it strong enough into the old boy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Later, as the sedative action began to gain on the stimulant action, you would slowly become inert and stupefied. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Tell us what you can, but stop when you are tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The stimulant changed into an opiate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the other stimulants lost their influence, I doubled the dose. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Substances of the latter class are known as narcotics and stimulants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I always required the stimulants of companionship and applause. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The sun was high in the sky, when she gently disengaged herself to give him the stimulants and nourishment he required. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That was what I meant when I spoke of stimulants to the intellect; I was thinking of the contradictions which arise in perception. Plato. The Republic.
Editor: Pratt