stirring
Americanadjective
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rousing, exciting, or thrilling.
a stirring speech.
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moving, active, bustling, or lively.
a stirring business.
noun
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a mental impulse, sensation, or feeling.
stirrings of hope.
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a small movement.
the best thing she could do was to pretend that her husband's nocturnal stirrings didn't wake her
adjective
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exciting the emotions; stimulating
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active, lively, or busy
Other Word Forms
- stirringly adverb
- unstirring adjective
Etymology
Origin of stirring
before 900; Middle English stiringe, Old English styriende. See stir 1, -ing 2
Example Sentences
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"Every day is the same hunger, the same misery", he says, stirring a pot of white rice – so at the very least his daughter will come home from school to something hot to eat.
From BBC
Reviewers called Kane’s work “magnificent,” “stirring,” and recommended it “be in the hands of parents and school children” everywhere.
From Literature
Ruffling his feathers, he hopped upon the rail fence, threw his head back, and told everything within hearing distance that it was a beautiful Ozark morning and it was time to start stirring.
From Literature
Mard was stirring a bubbling pot of sludge with one hand, the other hand full of wriggling worms.
From Literature
Nothing’s more stirring than seeing an Olympian override pressure.
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