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stimulating
[ stim-yuh-ley-ting ]
adjective
- causing interest, inspiration, or incitement to action:
We offer a stimulating work environment with lots of opportunity for growth.
- inciting; acting as a cause:
Rapid technological change is described by some authors as a stimulating factor in the decline of traditional ways of growing food.
- having the property of exciting a nerve, gland, etc., to its functional activity:
This plant tincture has a stimulating effect on the liver, spleen, and digestive system.
Other Words From
- stim·u·lat·ing·ly adverb
- non·stim·u·lat·ing adjective
- self-stim·u·lat·ing adjective
- sem·i·stim·u·lat·ing adjective
- un·stim·u·lat·ing adjective
- un·stim·u·lat·ing·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of stimulating1
Example Sentences
However, leaving and then starting her own independent label, Tinashe Music Inc., bolstered the artist to a creatively stimulating height in her career.
The treatment works by implanting leads into the spine of patients and electrically stimulating the spinal cord.
In 2022, Duke researchers, backed by the National Institutes of Health, began investigating whether stimulating the vagus nerve could affect SUMOylation and set off a natural anti-inflammatory response that calms immune responses and reduces inflammation.
The Fed eventually wants to get to a point where interest rates are neither stimulating nor restricting the economy, as they are now.
It kills trees that have a role to play in stimulating rainclouds to form, which disrupts delicately balanced rainfall cycles - creating a feedback loop leading to further drought.
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