Thesaurus
stimulating
Synonyms and Antonyms of stimulating
- enjoys the good food and stimulating conversation at his best friend's house
- a brisk, stimulating walk on a bright, clear wintry day
- an article containing a stimulating argument for raising, not lowering, the tax on gasoline
explosive, fiery, incendiary, inflammatory, triggering
inducing, inspirational, inspiring, motivating, motivational, motivative
activating, energizing, galvanizing, quickening, vitalizing
angering, enraging, maddening, upsetting
aggravating, annoying, bothersome, exasperating, galling, irksome, irritating, pesky, vexatious, vexing
Synonyms and Antonyms of stimulating
- research into alternative energy sources has been stimulated by this funding increase
arousing, awakening, awaking, raising, rousing, stirring, waking (up)
activating, actuating, driving, impelling, motivating, motiving, moving, propelling
charging, electrifying, galvanizing
enkindling, 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, strengthening
reactivating, reanimating, reawakening, reawaking, recharging, recreating, reenergizing (or re-energizing), refreshening, refreshing, regenerating, reinvigorating, rejuvenating, rekindling, renewing, restimulating, resurrecting, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving
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, wearying
checking, curbing, inhibiting, jading, quelling, quenching, repressing, restraining, slowing, stilling, stunting, suppressing
daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting
- the government crackdown has only stimulated the citizenry to more acts of violence
fanning, igniting, inflaming (also enflaming), kindling, triggering
activating, animating, driving, energizing, galvanizing, inducing, inspiring, keying (up), motivating, motiving, pumping up, quickening, setting off, vitalizing
abetting, fermenting, fomenting, raising, whipping (up)
angering, enraging, maddening, upsetting
aggravating, annoying, bothering, exasperating, galling, getting, irritating, vexing
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