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excitant
noun as in gadfly
noun as in impulse
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in spur
noun as in stimulant
Example Sentences
Their gestures were lost in the tumult and the darkness; what the crowd did see seemed to act only as an excitant.
The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne.
There was a readiness and suggestibility to respond to rumor or to the least excitant.
A smell of musk is also given off by several plants: it is a sexual excitant in the musk-deer, the musk-sheep, and the crocodile.
The influence of dreams as an excitant of muscular movement will be hereafter discussed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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