Stirring

Definition: Stirring

Stirring

Adjective

1. Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues".

2. Exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions; "a stirring speech".

Noun

1. Agitating a liquid with an implement; "constant stirring prevents it from burning on the bottom of the pan".

2. Arousing to a particular emotion or action.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stirring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stirring

Activity

Working, at work, on duty, in harness; up in arms; on one's legs, at call; up and doing, up and stirring.

Astir, stirring; agoing, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on the alert; (vigilant).

Adjective: active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated, vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, spirited, stirring.

Eventuality

Eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident; memorable, momentous, signal.

Importance

Adjective: important; of importance; Noun: momentous, material; to the point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at; egregious; weighty; (influential); of note; (repute); notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable; worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring, eventful.

News

Report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.

Bulletin, fresh news, stirring news; glad tidings; flash, news just in; on-the-spot coverage; live coverage.

Quiescence

Quiet, tranquility, calm; repose; peace; dead calm, anticyclone; statue-like repose; silence; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep; (inactivity).

Crosswords: Stirring

'Twas the night before Christmas, and in this house a creature was stirring. But the only thing he was stirring was: up trouble (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been (The Last of the Mohicans; writing credit: James Fenimore Cooper; John L. Balderston)

I got Aniseed flavour, it doesn't appear to be doing much, nothing stirring downstairs yet anyway (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation's Favorite Song (reference)

• Forever Knight: A Stirring of Dust (reference)

• Imprisoned for Christ: A Stirring Testament to God's Sustaining Grace in a Balkan Prison (reference)

• Stirring It Up (Dish #1) (reference)

• Stirring the Mud : On Swamps, Bogs and Human Imagination (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• American Pride: Sixteen Stirring Patriotic Themes [BCI] (reference)

• Stirring the Forest [IMPORT] (reference)

• Stirring with Soul (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A hot pink plate on a light pink-checkered tablecloth. On the plate is a tall, conical glass of a yellow liquid, garnished with a lemon slice, some purple grapes and a straw. In front of the glass is a long stirring spoon. Behind it are a whole pineapple and a green bowl with 2 whole lemons. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

YEEHAW!!! Oh for a life on the rolling sea! DELAWARE II stirring up landlubbers stomachs. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Fat cook stirring a pot. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse". Credit: Library of Congress.

President Roosevelt delivering a stirring address at the dedication of the capitol, Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 4, 1906. Credit: Library of Congress.

Somewhere in England young French men and women are reading the poster where all Frenchmen are called upon to continue the fight by the stirring words of General de Gaulle: "France has lost a battle; but France has not lost the war". Credit: Library of Congress.

Ranch cook stirring chili. Roundup near Marfa, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmer stirring sorghum molasses which is being cooked in vat. Racine, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Harry Mercer stirring a mixture of corn, cream, sugar and salt on the dryer. The corn will remain here for two to three days. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miller & Hogarty present America's daintiest comedy queen, Elsa Ryan in the stirring comedy drama of western life, Nevada by Fred. [Dar]cy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Nothing was stirring, not a bivouac fire was extinguished

The next day brought death and judgment, stirring his soul slowly from its listless despair

Casy looked over at the stirring garment

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Bulgaria

These provisions are designed to prevent the development of parties based on a single ethnic or other group that could prove divisive for national unity by stirring up ethnic tensions for political purposes. (references)

Economic History

Slovenia

The banking sector also is showing signs of stirring from its relative torpor, as pressures to consolidate its myriad banks build and privatization of two of Slovenia's largest banks gradually gets underway. (references)

Ukraine

Ukrainian writers and intellectuals were inspired by the nationalistic spirit stirring other European peoples existing under other imperial governments and were determined to revive Ukrainian linguistic and cultural traditions and re-establish a Ukrainian nation-state. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Stirring up

Expressions using "stirring": a stirring speech ♦ not a mouse stirring ♦ stirring emotion ♦ stirring events ♦ stirring ladle ♦ stirring times ♦ stirring up ♦ stirring with a spoon ♦ up and stirring. Additional references.

Beginning with "stirring": stirring-up.

Ending with "stirring": wind-stirring.

Albanian

trazirje, përzierje (admixture, amalgamation, blend, chow-chow, commixture, composite, compound, confection, conglomeration, fusion, hash, immixture, implication, interference, interfusion, intermixture, involvement, kneading, malaxation, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, mix, mixing, mixture, olio, omnium gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, promiscuity, salmagundi, shuffle, stir, temper), energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, snappy, sturdy, vigorous, vital, zippy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محمس (stimulating), ‏مؤثر (acting, affective, altruist, effective, effectual, efficacious, emotional, influential, moving, operative, poignant, touching), ‏مثير (agitating, breathtaking, electrifying, excitant, excitative, exciting, fomenting, galvanizing, hair raising, impetus, incentive, inciting, inspiring, instigating, irritative, provocative, provoking, rousing, sensational, sore, spectacular, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, thrilling), ‏ناشط (active, alive, brisk, busy, furious, kinetic, pragmatic, smart, vivid), ‏إثارة (aggravation, agitation, excitation, excitement, instigation, irritation, provocation, splash, stir, thrilling, trepidation), ‏إرتجاف (dither, quaver, quiver, shudder, throb, trembling, tremor, twitter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вълнуващ (emotive, exciting, moving, palpitating, penetrative, soul-stirring, spectacular), вечно зает, оживен (active, alive, animate, animated, brisk, bustling, crisp, effervescent, heated, hilarious, lively, racy, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, thriving, vivacious), деен (active, busy, positive, vigorous). (various references)

Chinese 

搅动 (Churn, Churned, churned-up, Churning, slosh, sloshed, stir, stirred). (various references)

Czech

strhující (arresting, entrancing, impressive, thrilling, vehement), vzrušující (exciting, rousing, thrilling), dojemný (emotional, melting, moving, soulful, touching). (various references)

Danish

piskning (whipping), opblanding (agitation, dilution), omroering (agitation, boil), omrøring (agitation, swirling, working), agitation (agitation, propaganda). (various references)

Dutch

snijden (castrate), verdelen (deal, distribute, divide, separate, share), roeren van het bad, roeren (curl, froth, stir, whip, whirl), het schudden (agitation), het roeren (agitation), Agiteren (abet, agitate, incite, stir up). (various references)

Finnish

sytyttävä (inspiring), sekoitus (admixture, blend, mix, mixture), sekoittaminen (agitating, agitation, blending, whipping), hämmentäminen (whipping), hämmennys (bewilderment, embarrassment, perplexity). (various references)

French

vif, vibrant, remuement, incitateur, guinandage, frisson (stir), frémissement, fouettage, exaltant (stimulating), entraînant, brassage du bain, brassage (stirring up), agitation mécanique, agitation (stir), émouvant. (various references)

German

zündend (exciting, kindling, rousing, sparking), Umrühren (stir, stir up, to stir up), Roehren (agitation), regung (movement), rührend (affecting, moving, pathetic, poignant, stiring, touching, touchingly, toughing), Rühren (affect, agitate, beat, budge, move, stir, stir up, to budge, touch, touch on), mitreißend (carrying along, exciting, exuberant, galvanic, infectious, powerful, powerfully, rousing, thrilling), ergreifend (affecting, affectingly, griping, lachrymose, moving, movingly, poignant, seizing, touching), Baddurchwirbelung, aufwühlend, Aufrühren (agitate, rake up, rouse, stir up, to agitate), Agitation (agitation). (various references)

Greek 

ανακάτεμα (turning). (various references)

Hebrew 

מל�"יב (rousing), מעורר (alarm clock, arousing, awaking, excitor, stimulant), מריס�" (mixing), בחיש�" (mixing, stir), � עיר�" (dusting, shaking). (various references)

Hungarian

izgató (agitator, disturbing, excitant, excitative, exciter, exciting, irritant, irritative, piquant, prompter, stimulant, stimulating, stirrer, thrilling, upsetting). (various references)

Indonesian

penggeloraan, pengadukan (mixing). (various references)

Italian

rimescolamento del vetro, rimescolamento (agitation, removal, rousing, stewing, stirring up, whipping, working), movimento (activity, bustle, flow, motion, move, movement, stir, sweep, tempo), eccitante (excitant, exciting, heady, stimulant, thrilling), agitazione (abetment, agitation, anxiety, bother, commotion, disturbance, excitement, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, fret, fussiness, restlessness, state, stir, turmoil, twitter, uneasiness, unrest, upheaval). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

壮快 (emotionally uplifting). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そうかい (blue waters, dragging for mines, emotionally uplifting, exhilarating, general meeting, grand opening, refreshing, sweeping the sea for mines, this world's sudden changes), ふ�"き (gas, rousing oneself), かくは�" (agitate, agitation, all, beat, each clan, every, stir, various, whip, whipping), �"うかい (exciting, hearty, heroic, largehearted, lively, splendid). (various references)

Korean 

약동. (various references)

Manx

mestee, gleashagh (affecting, locomotive, moving, stir, touching). (various references)

Pig Latin

irringstay.(various references)

Portuguese

vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), mexido (pert), esperto (agile, astute, bobbish, brainy, bright, clever, cute, informed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, live, politic, salted, sharp, shrewd, sly, smart, sprightly, tricksy, watchful, wide-awake), em movimento (afoot, agoing, astir, moving), buliçoso (active, agile, noisy), brassagem (agitation, mashing), ativo (abuzz, acting, active, adroit, aggressive, agile, alive, astir, brisk, busy, deedful, efficient, energetic, havings, industrious, light, live, lively, living, nippy, operative, pushful, quick, rangy, rustler, smart, spry, strenuous, vivacious, vivid), atarefado (active), agitação mecânica (agitation), agitação do vinho (whipping), agitação do vidro, agitação (agitation, commotion, disturbance, emotion, excitation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fret, furor, furore, fuss, inquietude, perturbation, popple, racket, rattle, riot, ruffle, rush, shake, state, tempest, to-do, tremor, trepidation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval). (various references)

Romanian

epocã plinã de frãmântãri (stirring times), discurs înflãcãrat (a stirring speech). (various references)

Russian 

шевелить помешивание волнующий, волнение (agitation, commotion, disturbance, effervescence, effervescency, emotion, excitement, fermentation, flutter, gurgitation, heartbeat, heave, perturbation, stew, throb, tizzies, tizzy, turbulence, unrest), помешивание, деятельный (abuzz, active, effective, live, on the jump). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzbudljiv (breathtaking, excitative, excitatory, exciting, skittish, thrilling), pomicanje, podstrekavan, podsticanje (exhortation, fomentation, incitement). (various references)

Spanish

turbulento (disorderly, mutinous, obstreperous, restless, squally, troubled, troublous, turbulent, unruly, wild), mecido (whipping), inspirador (inspirator, inspiring), emocionante (deep-felt, discomposing, emotional, exciting, exiting, irritating, moving, thrilling), agitación mecánica (agitation), agitación (agitation, convulsion, discomposure, excitement, ferment, flurry, fussiness, restiveness, state, stir, twitter, welter). (various references)

Swedish

spännande (cliffhanging, enthraling, enthralling, exciting, thrilling). (various references)

Turkish

renkli (colored, colorful, coloured, colourful, hued, lithochromatic, painted, staining), olaylı (crowded, episodic, eventful), karıştırma (admixture, adulteration, browsing, combination, commixture, compound, confusion, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture, shuffle, shuffling, stir), karıştıran (confusing, mixing), heyecanlandırıcı (breathtaking, electrifying, exciting, heart-warming, lively), heyecan verici (electric, exciting, orgiastic, rousing, sensational, thrilling), coşkulu (cock-a-hoop, declamatory, dithyrambic, effusive, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, glowing, gut, in a glow, rapturous, sweeping, transported with joy, vehement). (various references)

Ukrainian

хвилюючий (affecting, alarming, dramatic, emotional, emotive, heartwarming, thrilling, troublous), хвилювання (agitation, boil, bubble, care, disturbance, excitation, feeze, fermentation, fizzle, heartbeat, perturbation, pother, pucker, swell, throb, uproar), активність (activity, energies), помішування, діяльний (abuzz, active, busy, deedful, humming, omnific, operose, rash). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sôi nổi kích thích, khích động gây xúc động. (various references)

Welsh

cynhyrfiol (thrilling), cynhyrfiad (agitation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stirring": stirringly. (additional references)

Words ending with "stirring": bestirring, overstirring, upstirring. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stirring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stairing, stering, sterring, stiring, stirir, stirrin, tsirion. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: rising, siring, siting, string, tiring.

-3 letters: girns, girts, grins, grist, grits, intis, iring, rings, sting, tings, trigs.

-4 letters: gins, girn, girt, gist, gits, grin, grit, inti, iris, nisi, nits, rigs, ring, rins, sign, sing, snit, stir, ting, tins, trig.

-5 letters: gin, git, ins, its, nit, rig, rin, sin, sir, sit, sri, tin, tis.

+1 letter: stringier.

+2 letters: bestirring, instarring, intriguers, restriking, restriving, roistering, stirringly, upstirring.

+3 letters: garnierites, gentrifiers, irrigations, originators, prewritings, redshirting, registering, reinserting, restraining, restricting, restringing, ripsnorting, surprinting, terrorising, trailerings, transpiring.

+4 letters: disinterring, enterprising, fingerprints, freewritings, invigorators, misinterring, misreporting, overstirring, overstriding, overstriking, registration, remigrations, retiringness, risorgimento, transcribing.

+5 letters: brainstorming, disintegrator, enregistering, exteriorising, geriatricians, granodiorites, granularities, intercrossing, interiorising, interspersing, interworkings, introgression, introgressive, irreligionist, orienteerings, overstraining, primogenitors, rechristening, redistricting, registrations, reinvigorates, reregistering, risorgimentos, sportswriting, subirrigating, subirrigation, transfiguring, transpiercing.