stimulant
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]stimulant (plural stimulants)
- (pharmacology) A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body.
- 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
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]substance acting to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body
|
something promoting activity, interest or enthusiasm
|
Adjective
[edit]stimulant (not comparable)
- (pharmacology) Acting as a stimulant.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Participle
[edit]stimulant
Noun
[edit]stimulant m (plural stimulants)
Adjective
[edit]stimulant (feminine stimulante, masculine plural stimulants, feminine plural stimulantes)
Further reading
[edit]- “stimulant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]stimulant
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French stimulant. By surface analysis, stimula + -ant.
Adjective
[edit]stimulant m or n (feminine singular stimulantă, masculine plural stimulanți, feminine and neuter plural stimulante)
Declension
[edit]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 |
Categories:
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Pharmaceutical drugs
- English terms with quotations
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- en:Pharmaceutical effects
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French non-lemma forms
- French present participles
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French adjectives
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms suffixed with -ant
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian adjectives