rousing

Definition of rousing

Adjectives

capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

"a rousing sermon"

Synonyms:: stirring; stimulating
rousing or quickening activity or the senses

rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading

"tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation"

Synonyms:: provocative
serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy

Nouns

the act of arousing

Synonyms:: arousal

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; awakening, wakening, waking up
the act of waking; reveille
a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise; excitation, excitement
something that agitates and arouses; chiller, hair-raiser
excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones; thrill
something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation; incitation, incitement
an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating; inflaming, inflammation
arousal to violent emotion; inspiration, stirring
arousing to a particular emotion or action; stimulation
the act of arousing an organism to action; galvanisation, galvanization
stimulation that arouses a person to lively action; titillation
an agreeable arousal

Type of:: change of state
the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics

Vocabulary Lists for rousing

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shard
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