Stimulus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STIMULUS in dictionary:

VERB:
• A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.
• That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.
NOUN:
• an agency that produces a response
• a thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue
• a thing that arouses activity or energy in someone or something; a spur or incentive
• an interesting and exciting quality
• something that rouses a person or thing to activity
• any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• something that causes a response

Words related to STIMULUS

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Words that contain STIMULUS

tristimulus13 poststimulus16 interstimulus15

How to use STIMULUS in a sentence

• There can be but little question that the discovery of the American mines gave commerce and manufactures and agriculture, on the whole, a stimulus.
• A teacher is required, less for the sake of stimulus than of precaution.
• This people did not wish excitement, or stimulus, or astonishment, or agitation.
• Perhaps it had just the contrary effect, and acted like a diffused stimulus upon the attention.
• He could linger where there was wine until the dregs of the company were stirred by the stimulus.
• There is a stimulus, enthusiasm and abandon about it which is attained but seldom in her other verses.
• The rich eloquence of her prose, with its pathos and sentiment, its broad perspective and vigorous thought, was to her a continual stimulus and incentive.
• A prodigious stimulus was thus given to Greek intellectual activity.
• We have usually the stimulus of remote chances of danger either from beasts or men.
• The influence of falling water as an auditory stimulus.
• The first extra reward is naturally a stimulus toward winning the second extra reward.
• The middle rate is a stimulus to endeavor to perform that method which will enable him easiest to achieve the accomplishment of the task that pays the highest wage.
• It was very exhilarating, this stimulus of respectful attention accorded him by these prosperous Eastern men, and before he knew it he was at East Falls.
• What was the stimulus and inspiration of the British forces? We shall now review some of the disadvantages under which we had to wage war for almost three years.
• Probably the fact is, that for every extra hour directly required by the teacher, another is indirectly extorted in addition by the general stimulus of the school.
• Art will receive an inconceivable stimulus, from the recognition of its true significance as a re-humanization of nature, and from the perception of its scope and possibilities.
• If her mental victories must be lower and narrower than his, still she should enjoy the stimulus of the struggle, as one means of aiding the fulfilment of her human destiny.
• Even a pain in moderation may be a refreshment, from giving a stimulus to pursuit.
• During the last four years, under the stress of a consuming war every stimulus employed by business management for speeding up production has been advanced.
• The mere multiplication of the missiles also lends an additional stimulus, and the statistics of success in this way appear almost fabulous.
• It was a false stimulus, and when the first effects had passed away, it left you in this condition.
• There is, however, no radical difference, simply a difference in object and intensity of stimulus, between handling and making weapons and handling and making tools.
• In all the movements we have described, the spiritual stimulus, the initial drive, and the solid successes have been provided by voluntary association.
• The man who has lost faith in the power of the ballot is to be revived with the stimulus of human speech.
• The coming of the North Bank railroad has given a decided stimulus to the growth of the county.
• He needs this knowledge as a stimulus and a means of expression for his own spiritual life.
• The general practice is to distribute the proceeds of the property among the captors as a reward for bravery and a stimulus to exertion.

Similar words containing STIMULU without suffix s

tristimulus13 poststimulus16 interstimulus15

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