Crossword-Solution: STIMULUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stimulus | v. t. | A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action. |
| Stimulus | v. t. | That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ. |
We have 46 clues for the answer “STIMULUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| type of economic package to boost the economy | 1 answer |
| Bill in 2009 news | 1 answer |
| Cause of a response | 1 answer |
| It can get you up | 1 answer |
| It causes a reaction | 1 answer |
| It elicits a response | 1 answer |
| One causes a reaction | 1 answer |
| Something that rouses to action | 1 answer |
| something that rouses a person or thing to activity | 1 answer |
| stressor | 1 answer |
| Spur to action | 6 answers |
| Shot in the arm | 10 answers |
| fillip | 16 answers |
| brainwave | 20 answers |
| provocation | 21 answers |
| Sting | 25 answers |
| Hormone | 28 answers |
| ACTIVATOR | 28 answers |
| BOOSTER ___ | 29 answers |
| Invitation. | 29 answers |
| irritant | 30 answers |
| excitant | 34 answers |
| Incitement. | 34 answers |
| stimulation | 35 answers |
| Stimulant | 38 answers |
| tonic | 39 answers |
| Ferment | 42 answers |
| suasion | 45 answers |
| Bribe | 48 answers |
| Thrust | 50 answers |
| FIRST cause | 52 answers |
| Spur | 52 answers |
| Impulse | 52 answers |
| vibrancy | 53 answers |
| Prod | 57 answers |
| Goad | 63 answers |
| Impetus | 64 answers |
| Incentive | 65 answers |
| persuasion | 67 answers |
| Wish ___ | 68 answers |
| activation | 69 answers |
| Inspiration | 71 answers |
| Mood | 81 answers |
| Excitement | 92 answers |
| Anger | 94 answers |
| Fancy | 122 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with STIMULUS (5)
Having once received the stimulus that her presence always gave them, they went round among the sheep with a will.
The further rebuilding of the war-ravaged country could provide a major stimulus to the economy in 1992, provided that the political and military situation remains reasonably calm.
Between the refreshing water that he had drunk and the stimulus of renewed hope, Clayton found strength to stagger through the shallow water to the shore with a line made fast to the boat’s bow.
Not a few openly avowed themselves converted to antagonism; the rest needed only a slight stimulus to make a similar avowal.
Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes.
Quotes with STIMULUS (3)
What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogue’s dream; the “free-thinker” and skeptic, closed only to the truth but “open” to each new intellectual fashion because he himself has no intellectual foundation; the “seeker” after some “new revelation,” ready to believe anything new because true faith has been annihilated in him; the planner and experim…
There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keep…
At a cellular level of the human mind, Islamophobia is not really a matter of social stigma, rather it is a natural biological fear response of the general human mind, conditioned through countless pairings between terrorist attacks (unconditioned stimulus) and their apparent association with Islam (conditioned stimulus). Hence, Islamophobia cannot be eradicated completely, unless that pairing is severed and thereafter the conditioned stimulus of Islam is paired with somethin…
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1994–2020).