stirring

Speech parts

1. stirring - Noun

2. stirring - Adjective

3. stirring - Verb

Derived from stir

5. stirring - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Stir

Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

inspiration exciting stimulating rousing arousing soul-stirring rouse ado move movement active galvanic budge galvanization wiggly
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Antonyms

jolly still good stoic cold DRY
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Hypernyms

agitation arousal rousing

Phrases with the word

stirring life stirring speech stirring vessel news stirring stirring rod stirring bowl

Examples

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. Denis Diderot

They are going up and down the country, stirring up apathy. William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. Felix Adler

A stirring foot always gets something, even if it's only a thorn. Irish Proverb

If you keep stirring at a girl you cannot have you will never see a girl you can have. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

stirred up stirred vessel stirrer stirring apparatus stirring bowl stirring cup