stimulant

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪmjʊlənt/

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Noun

stimulant (plural stimulants)

1. (pharmacology) A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 59:

     Milk of chameleon was recommended as an erotic stimulant by Avicenna.

   • 2024 April 10 [2020 August 27], Nick B., “Which Drugs Are Uppers And Downers?”, in The Freedom Center‎^[1]:

     “Uppers” are what’s known as stimulants while “downers” are what is classified as depressants. […] Uppers increased cardiovascular and respiratory functions to dangerous degrees that can overwhelm the body. If you’ve ever felt an adrenaline rush before, you likely felt shaky, weak, or dizzy once it passed. This is similar to what stimulant drug users experience once a stimulant wears off. Feelings of exhaustion and depression set in and users seek more uppers to ward off what’s known as a “crash”.

2. Something that promotes activity, interest, or enthusiasm.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 571:

     [T]ouching the much vexed question of stimulants he relished a glass of choice old wine in season as both nourishing and bloodmaking and possessing aperient virtues (notably a good burgundy which he was a staunch believer in) […]

   • 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 41:

     I was never to feel anything comparable under the influence of orthodox religious stimulants.

Synonyms

• psychostimulant, excitant

Derived terms

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

Translations

substance acting to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body

• Arabic: مُنَشِّط (munaššiṭ), مُنَبِّه (ar) (munabbih)
• Bulgarian: стимулант m (stimulant)
• Catalan: estimulant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 興奮劑 / 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 (gl) 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)
• Korean: 각성제(覺醒劑) (ko) (gakseongje), 흥분제(興奮劑) (ko) (heungbunje)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: handerker, kartêkir (ku) f

• Malay: peransang (ms)
• Māori: (pūroi) haupiki, (pūroi) whakaihiihi
• Persian: محرک (fa) (moharrek)
• Plautdietsch: Aunreizmeddel n
• Polish: używka (pl) f
• Portuguese: estimulante (pt) m
• Romanian: stimulent (ro) n
• Russian: стимуля́тор (ru) m (stimuljátor)
• Spanish: estimulante (es) m
• Turkish: uyarıcı (tr)

something promoting activity, interest or enthusiasm

• Bulgarian: стимул (bg) m (stimul)
• 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.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti.my.lɑ̃/

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Participle

stimulant

1. present participle of stimuler

Noun

stimulant m (plural stimulants)

1. stimulant

Adjective

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

1. stimulating

Further reading

• “stimulant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Verb

stimulant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of stimulō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French stimulant. By surface analysis, stimula +‎ -ant.

Adjective

stimulant m or n (feminine singular stimulantă, masculine plural stimulanți, feminine/neuter plural stimulante)

1. stimulating

Declension

Declension of stimulant

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	stimulant		stimulantă		stimulanți	stimulante
	definite	stimulantul		stimulanta		stimulanții	stimulantele
genitive- dative	indefinite	stimulant		stimulante		stimulanți	stimulante
	definite	stimulantului		stimulantei		stimulanților	stimulantelor