stimulant

1. 1.

   that stimulates

   “stimulant phenomena”

   Synonymsstimulating

   Similarstimulative

Other forms of stimulant

plural

stimulants·

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 stimulant

What does stimulant mean?

stimulant means "any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stimulant?

stimulant has 3 syllables: stim-u-lant. The stress falls on "stim". In IPA it is /ˈstɪmjələnt/.

What is another word for stimulant?

Close synonyms include stimulation, stimulus, input, stimulant drug, excitant. 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 stimulant a common word?

stimulant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.