English words for 'Producing mental arousal'
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noun
noun
- arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
- (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
- a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- a product of your creative thinking and work
- arousing to a particular emotion or action
- The act or process of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
- (countable) A single inward breath (intake of air).
- (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
- A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
- A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
- A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
noun
- An arousal.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
verb
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- force or drive out
- cause to become awake or conscious
- become active
noun
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
- something that agitates and arouses
- (physics) A transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule to an excited state by the absorption of a quantum of energy; the opposite of relaxation.
- (physiology) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation.
- The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
noun
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- arousal to violent emotion
- the act of setting something on fire
- a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
- (pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
- The state of being inflamed.
prefix
noun
- Sexual arousal.
- The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
- Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
- A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
- mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
- a state of heightened physiological activity
- the act of arousing
- awakening from sleep
adj
verb
adj
- easily aroused or excited
- moving quickly and lightly
- accomplished rapidly and without delay
- hurried and brief
- apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
- performed with little or no delay
- (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
- (crosswording) Not cryptic.
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
noun
- any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
- The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
- Plants used in making a quickset hedge
- Quitchgrass.
- Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
- (cricket) A fast bowler.
adv
verb
adj
- easily aroused or excited
- having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
- inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color
- characterized by strong enthusiasm
- psychologically warm; friendly and responsive
- uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble
- freshly made or left
- characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement
- of a seeker; near to the object sought
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- Friendly and with affection.
- (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.
- Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
- Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
- (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
adv
verb
- get warm or warmer
- make warm or warmer
- (transitive) To give emotional warmth to a person.
- (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
- (transitive) To make or keep warm.
- (transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.
- (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
- (Internet, transitive) To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.
- (ditransitive with to) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
- (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
- (computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- (intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. [with to]
- (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
noun
noun
- an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a state of widespread public excitement and interest
- a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- (psychology, physiology) Excitation of sensory organs.
verb
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- provide with heat
- gain heat or get hot
- make hot or hotter
- (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
noun
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- the presence of heat
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- (slang, endearing) The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
verb
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- start or maintain a fire in
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- start to burn or burst into flames
- (chemistry, transitive) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances.
- (transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)
- (transitive) to spark off (something), to trigger
- (intransitive) to commence burning.
verb
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- catch fire
- cause to start burning
- cause inflammation in
- become inflamed; get sore
- (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
- (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
verb
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- cause to become awake or conscious
- be awake, be alert, be there
- to alert someone to something
- stop sleeping
- (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
noun
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
- (physics) The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
- (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind a moving person or object.
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.
adj
verb
verb
noun
adj
- affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling
- using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity
- (of a situation) exceptionally tense
- Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
- (figuratively) Emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
- Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
noun
- a car that is powered by electricity
- (rare, countable) An electric car, locomotive, train etc.
- (informal, usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply.
- (fencing) Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.
- An electric toothbrush.
- An electric typewriter.
noun
- Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).
- The first noticeable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.
- The action of bringing someone or something to life.
- An increase of speed.
- the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
- the process of showing signs of life
- the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus
verb
verb
- excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
- (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
- (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
noun
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region
- Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life, and the functions of the various organs.
- The act of innervating or stimulating.
- The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts.
noun
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
- a sudden outburst of anger
- A thing or person that annoys.
- The state of being irritated.
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- The act of irritating or annoying.
- (physiology) A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
verb
- arouse or elicit a feeling
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- to evoke sexual feelings
- produce a magnetic field in
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- stir feelings in
- raise to a higher energy level
- act as a stimulant
- (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
- (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
- To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.
- (transitive) To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
noun
noun
- arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
- (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
- a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- a product of your creative thinking and work
- arousing to a particular emotion or action
- The act or process of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
- (countable) A single inward breath (intake of air).
- (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
- A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
- A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
- A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
noun
- An arousal.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
verb
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- force or drive out
- cause to become awake or conscious
- become active
noun
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
- something that agitates and arouses
- (physics) A transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule to an excited state by the absorption of a quantum of energy; the opposite of relaxation.
- (physiology) The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation.
- The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
noun
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- arousal to violent emotion
- the act of setting something on fire
- a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
- (pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
- The state of being inflamed.
noun
- Sexual arousal.
- The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
- Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
- A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
- mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
- a state of heightened physiological activity
- the act of arousing
- awakening from sleep
noun
- an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a state of widespread public excitement and interest
- a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- (psychology, physiology) Excitation of sensory organs.
noun
- Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).
- The first noticeable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.
- The action of bringing someone or something to life.
- An increase of speed.
- the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
- the process of showing signs of life
- the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus
verb
noun
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region
- Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life, and the functions of the various organs.
- The act of innervating or stimulating.
- The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts.
noun
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
- a sudden outburst of anger
- A thing or person that annoys.
- The state of being irritated.
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- The act of irritating or annoying.
- (physiology) A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
verb
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- provide with heat
- gain heat or get hot
- make hot or hotter
- (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
noun
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- the presence of heat
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- (slang, endearing) The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
verb
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- start or maintain a fire in
- cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- start to burn or burst into flames
- (chemistry, transitive) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances.
- (transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)
- (transitive) to spark off (something), to trigger
- (intransitive) to commence burning.
verb
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- catch fire
- cause to start burning
- cause inflammation in
- become inflamed; get sore
- (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
- (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
verb
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- cause to become awake or conscious
- be awake, be alert, be there
- to alert someone to something
- stop sleeping
- (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
noun
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
- (physics) The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
- (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind a moving person or object.
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.
verb
noun
verb
- excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
- (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
- (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
noun
- An arousal.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
verb
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- force or drive out
- cause to become awake or conscious
- become active
verb
- arouse or elicit a feeling
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- to evoke sexual feelings
- produce a magnetic field in
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- stir feelings in
- raise to a higher energy level
- act as a stimulant
- (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
- (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
- To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.
- (transitive) To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
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verb
adj
- easily aroused or excited
- moving quickly and lightly
- accomplished rapidly and without delay
- hurried and brief
- apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
- performed with little or no delay
- (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
- (crosswording) Not cryptic.
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
noun
- any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
- The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
- Plants used in making a quickset hedge
- Quitchgrass.
- Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
- (cricket) A fast bowler.
adv
verb
adj
- easily aroused or excited
- having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
- inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color
- characterized by strong enthusiasm
- psychologically warm; friendly and responsive
- uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble
- freshly made or left
- characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement
- of a seeker; near to the object sought
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- Friendly and with affection.
- (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.
- Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
- Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
- (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
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- get warm or warmer
- make warm or warmer
- (transitive) To give emotional warmth to a person.
- (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
- (transitive) To make or keep warm.
- (transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.
- (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
- (Internet, transitive) To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.
- (ditransitive with to) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
- (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
- (computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- (intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. [with to]
- (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
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adj
- affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling
- using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity
- (of a situation) exceptionally tense
- Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
- (figuratively) Emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
- Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
noun
- a car that is powered by electricity
- (rare, countable) An electric car, locomotive, train etc.
- (informal, usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply.
- (fencing) Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.
- An electric toothbrush.
- An electric typewriter.