Rousing

ahd-5
  • adjective. Inducing enthusiasm or excitement; stirring.
  • adjective. Lively; vigorous.
  • adjective. Used as an intensive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having power to rouse, excite, or astonish; surprisingly great, swift, violent, forcible, lively, or the like: as, a rousing fire; a rousing pace; a rousing meeting; a rousing lie or oath.
  • noun. A method of curing herring; roiling. See rouse, transitive verb, 6.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
  • adjective. Very great; violent; astounding.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. That rouses or excites
  • verb. Present participle of rouse.
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  • noun. the act of arousing
  • adjective. rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading
  • adjective. capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement
    • Word Usage
    "Leila Abu Saba posts a statement by Israeli activist, Shulamit Aloni, read at the Saturday Gaza protest, which she described as a rousing speech."
    Equivalent
    provocative  stimulating  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    arousing  bowsing  browsing  carousing  espousing  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    activating  alert  alluring  animate  animated  
    verb-stem
    rouse  
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