Antonyms for excitant
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ik-sahyt-nt, ek-si-tuh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈsaɪt nt, ˈɛk sɪ tənt |
Definition of excitant
- As in impulse : noun drive, resolve
- As in spur : noun incitement, stimulus
- As in stimulant : noun substance that invigorates
- As in gadfly : noun goad; nuisance
- The magic love-philtre is the excitant in this story of rapture and gloom.
- Extract from : « The Complete Opera Book » by Gustav Kobb
- As an excitant emetic; in cases of poisoning by narcotics, &c.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
- He should be a sedative and an inspiration to the patient, not an irritant or an excitant.
- Extract from : « Studies in the Epistle of James » by A. T. Robertson
- There was a readiness and suggestibility to respond to rumor or to the least excitant.
- Extract from : « Catastrophe and Social Change » by Samuel Henry Prince
- At its first creation, like caloric, it was in a latent state, as no excitant as yet had put it in motion.
- Extract from : « The Mosaic History of the Creation of the World » by Thomas Wood
- The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne.
- Extract from : « Flamsted quarries » by Mary E. Waller
- Conscientiousness is a sort of moral opium; an excitant in small doses, perhaps, but at bottom a strong narcotic.
- Extract from : « The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Their gestures were lost in the tumult and the darkness; what the crowd did see seemed to act only as an excitant.
- Extract from : « The Nabob » by Alphonse Daudet
- What importance can this have, since all the difference depends on the position occupied by the excitant?
- Extract from : « The Mind and the Brain » by Alfred Binet
- The influence of dreams as an excitant of muscular movement will be hereafter discussed.
- Extract from : « Insomnia; and Other Disorders of Sleep » by Henry M. Lyman
Synonyms for excitant
- activation
- actuation
- analeptic
- annoyance
- appeal
- bent
- bracer
- caprice
- catalyst
- desire
- disposition
- drug
- energizer
- excitant
- extemporization
- fancy
- feeling
- flash
- goad
- goose
- hunch
- impellent
- impetus
- impulse
- impulsion
- incentive
- incitation
- incitement
- inclination
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- instinct
- irritant
- itch
- lash
- lust
- mind
- motivation
- motivator
- motive
- mover
- needle
- notion
- passion
- pest
- pick-me-up
- prick
- prod
- restorative
- reviver
- shot in the arm
- spark plug
- spontaneity
- spur
- stimulant
- stimulator
- stimulus
- thought
- tonic
- trigger
- turn-on
- upper
- urge
- vagary
- whim
- whimsy
- wish
- yen
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