Crossword-Solution: STIMULUS 8 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
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”

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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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greedy person
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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.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
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.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
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.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Not a few openly avowed themselves converted to antagonism; the rest needed only a slight stimulus to make a similar avowal.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994

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…
Seraphim Rose Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
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…
Meher Baba Discourses
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…
Abhijit Naskar What is Mind?
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 10 times in crossword archives (1994–2020).