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stimolante

stimulating, exciting

adjective stee-moh-LAN-teh Rare

Also means

stimulant (as noun)

Usage Note

Stimolante is invariable for gender (un dibattito stimolante, una sfida stimolante). As a noun it becomes masculine: uno stimolante (a stimulant drug or substance). The sense 'intellectually stimulating' is far more common in everyday Italian than the pharmacological one.

Examples

"La lezione è stata molto stimolante."

Natural Translation

The lesson was very stimulating.

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