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stimulating Adjective 1. inspiring new ideas or enthusiasm 2. (of a physical activity) making one feel refreshed and energetic; invigorating
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stimulating adjective exciting, inspiring, stirring, provoking, intriguing, rousing, provocative, exhilarating, thought-provoking, galvanic << OPPOSITE boring Translations |
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A thin envelope from an editor in the morning's mail was more stimulating than half a dozen cocktails. But I could hardly have respected him more, whatever the stimulating influences of this sight might have been. We were talking about what it is like to spend one's childhood in little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of climate: burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky, when one is fairly stifled in vegetation, in the color and smell of strong weeds and heavy harvests; blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron. |
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