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excitant

excitant adjective: exciting; stimulating.

Adjective

excitant (comparative more excitant, superlative most excitant)

  1. exciting; stimulating

Noun

excitant (plural excitants)

  1. Something that excites or stimulates; a stimulant.
    • Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 85

Forms of excitant

Adjective
comparativemore excitant
superlativemost excitant
Noun
pluralexcitants

Questions about excitant

What does excitant mean?
Excitant means exciting; stimulating.
What part of speech is excitant?
Excitant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near excitant in the dictionary

  1. excitableness
  2. excitably
  3. excitance
  4. excitances
  5. excitancy
  6. excitant
  7. excitants
  8. excitate
  9. excitated
  10. excitates
  11. excitating

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