stimulant

stimulant (plural stimulants)

1. A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body.
2. Something that promotes activity, interest, or enthusiasm.
   • 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 41:

     I was never to feel anything comparable under the influence of orthodox religious stimulants.

• psychostimulant

stimulant (not comparable)

1. Acting as a stimulant.

stimulant

1. present participle of stimuler

stimulant m (plural stimulants)

1. Stimulant

stimulant (feminine singular stimulante, masculine plural stimulants, feminine plural stimulantes)

1. stimulating

• “stimulant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

stimulant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of stimulō