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stimulants

stimulants is the plural of stimulant.

Meaning of stimulant

Noun

stimulant (plural stimulants)

  1. A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body.
    • Milk of chameleon was recommended as an erotic stimulant by Avicenna.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 59
  2. Something that promotes activity, interest, or enthusiasm.
    • [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) […]1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 571

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Questions about stimulants

What is stimulants the plural of?
Stimulants is the plural of stimulant.

Words near stimulants in the dictionary

  1. stimulability
  2. stimulable
  3. stimulance
  4. stimulancy
  5. stimulant
  6. stimulants
  7. stimulatability
  8. stimulatable
  9. stimulate
  10. stimulated
  11. stimulated emission depletion microscope

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