Rousing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Inducing enthusiasm or excitement; stirring: a rousing sermon.
  • adj. Lively; vigorous: a rousing march tune.
  • adj. Used as an intensive: a rousing lie.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. That rouses or excites
  • v. Present participle of rouse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
  • adj. Very great; violent; astounding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A method of curing herring; roiling. See rouse, transitive verb, 6.
  • Having power to rouse, excite, or astonish; surprisingly great, swift, violent, forcible, lively, or the like: as, a rousing fire; a rousing pace; a rousing meeting; a rousing lie or oath.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of arousing
  • adj. rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading
  • adj. capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement
  • Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    exciting    violent    astounding    lively    excitation   
    Verb Stem
    rouse   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    arousing    bowsing    browsing    carousing    espousing