rousing

/raʊzɪŋ/

Other forms: rousingly

If you've ever been "roused" out of your sleep by someone, then you'll have no trouble seeing that rousing refers to anything that gets you going, up on your feet, energized.

There's nothing like a rousing tournament of Twister to get you off your butt and into the game. Cheerleaders and rock stars are in the business of creating rousing spectacles. They want their audiences to get up on their feet, clap their hands, and get on the bandwagon. A good drinking song, too, is rousing, inspiring folks to clink their glasses, sway back and forth, and, well, keep drinking. Beethoven was a master of music that was thoughtful one minute and rousing the very next.

Definitions of rousing

1. adjective

   capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement
   “a rousing sermon”

   synonyms: stirring

   stimulating

   rousing or quickening activity or the senses
2. adjective

   rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading
   “tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation”

   synonyms:

   provocative

   serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy
3. noun

   the act of arousing
   synonyms: arousal

   types:

   awakening, wakening, waking up

   the act of waking

   excitation, excitement

   something that agitates and arouses

   incitation, incitement

   an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating

   inflaming, inflammation

   arousal to violent emotion

   inspiration, stirring

   the act of arousing to a particular emotion or action

   stimulation

   the act of arousing an organism to action

   titillation

   an agreeable arousal

   reveille

   a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise

   chiller, hair-raiser

   excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones

   thrill

   something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation

   galvanisation, galvanization

   stimulation that arouses a person to lively action

   type of:

   change of state

   the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics