stimulant

English

Noun

stimulant (plural stimulants)

1. (pharmacology) 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.

Synonyms

• psychostimulant

Derived terms

• biostimulant
• contrastimulant
• costimulant
• immunostimulant
• nonstimulant
• phagostimulant
• psychostimulant
• stim

 

Translations

substance acting to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body

• Catalan: estimulant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 興奮劑 (zh), 兴奋剂 (zh) (xīngfènjì)

• Finnish: piriste (fi), stimulantti (fi); (substance used for pleasure) nautintoaine (fi)
• French: excitant (fr) m, stimulant (fr) m
• Galician: estimulante m
• German: Stimulans (de) n
• Hungarian: stimuláns (hu)
• Irish: ardóg f (informal)

• Italian: stimolante (it) m
• Japanese: 覚醒剤 (ja) (かくせいざい, kakuseizai)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: handerker, kartêkir (ku) f

• Malay: peransang
• Plautdietsch: Aunreizmeddel n
• Polish: używka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estimulante (pt) m
• Romanian: stimulent (ro) m
• Russian: стимуля́тор (ru) m (stimuljátor)
• Spanish: estimulante (es) m

something promoting activity, interest or enthusiasm

• Catalan: estimulant (ca) m, estimulador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺激物 (zh) (cìjīwù)

• Esperanto: stimulanto, stimulaĵo
• Finnish: kannustin (fi), yllyke (fi)
• Hungarian: stimuláns (hu)

• Japanese: 覚醒 (ja) (かくせい, kakusei)
• Portuguese: estimulante (pt) m
• Romanian: stimulator (ro) m
• Russian: стимуля́тор (ru) m (stimuljátor), сти́мул (ru) m (stímul)
• Spanish: estimulante (es) m

Adjective

stimulant (not comparable)

1. (pharmacology) Acting as a stimulant.

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French

Verb

stimulant

1. present participle of stimuler

Noun

stimulant m (plural stimulants)

1. Stimulant

Adjective

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

1. stimulating

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

stimulant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of stimulō