STIMULATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stimulative mean? 

• STIMULATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective STIMULATIVE has 1 sense:

1. capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent

  Familiarity information: STIMULATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STIMULATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent

Similar:

adrenocorticotrophic; adrenocorticotropic (stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex)

analeptic (stimulating the central nervous system)

excitant; excitative; excitatory ((of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate)

irritating; irritative ((used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite)

stimulant; stimulating (that stimulates)

Also:

stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)

Antonym:

depressant (capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent)

Derivation:

stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)

stimulate (act as a stimulant)

stimulate (stir feelings in)

 Context examples 

By degrees the girls came to spend the chief of the morning upstairs, at first only in working and talking, but after a few days, the remembrance of the said books grew so potent and stimulative that Fanny found it impossible not to try for books again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Gratifying, however, and stimulative as was the letter in the material part, its sentiments, she yet found, when it was folded up and returned to Mrs. Weston, that it had not added any lasting warmth, that she could still do without the writer, and that he must learn to do without her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)