Usually means: Stimulating interest or strong emotion.
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  1. arousing: Merriam-Webster
  2. arousing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. arousing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Arousing, arousing: Wordnik
  5. arousing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. arousing: Wiktionary
  7. Arousing, arousing: Dictionary.com
  8. arousing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Arousing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Arousing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. arousing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. arousing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. arousing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. arousing: Merriam-Webster

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  1. arousing: Legal dictionary

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  1. arousing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (arousing)

▸ adjective:  Causing arousal.
▸ noun:  (rare) An act or occurrence in which something is aroused

Similar:
excite, provoke, stir, wake, wake up, call down, waken, turn on, enkindle, stimulate, more...

Opposite:
unstimulating, unexciting, uninteresting, dull, boring

Types:
erotic, sexy, titillating, provocative, stimulating, more...

Phrases:
sexually arousing, arousing sadness in a melodramatic way, arousing feelings, arousing genre of fiction, arousing deep emotion, more...

Adjectives:
more, fear, less, french, sexual, sudden, interest, worth, dangerous, mere, dissonance

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Similar:
excite, provoke, stir, wake, wake up, call down, waken, turn on, enkindle, stimulate, more...

Opposite:
unstimulating, unexciting, uninteresting, dull, boring

Types:
erotic, sexy, titillating, provocative, stimulating, more...

Phrases:
sexually arousing, arousing sadness in a melodramatic way, arousing feelings, arousing genre of fiction, arousing deep emotion, curiosity arousing, arousing confusion, arousing compassion, more...

Adjectives:
more, fear, less, french, sexual, sudden, interest, worth, dangerous, mere, dissonance

Colors:
    red,     scarlet,     crimson,     burgundy,     ruby, more...



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