excitant

1. 1.

   (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate

   Synonymsexcitativeexcitatory

   Similarstimulative

Other forms of excitant

plural

excitants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about excitant

What does excitant mean?

excitant means "a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excitant?

excitant has 3 syllables: ex-ci-tant. The stress falls on "ex".

What is another word for excitant?

Close synonyms include stimulant, stimulant drug, excitative, excitatory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is excitant a common word?

excitant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.