1. Capable of or likely to induce emotions, enthusiasm or excitement
   "a rousing sermon";
   - stirring
    
2. Rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading
   "tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation"

1. The act of arousing
   "the purpose of art is the rousing of emotions";
   - arousal

1. Cause to become awake or conscious
   "He was roused by the drunken men in the street";
   - awaken, wake, waken, wake up, arouse
    
2. Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
   "The protest march roused the whole city";
   - agitate, turn on, charge, commove [archaic], excite, charge up
    
3. Become active
   "He finally roused himself";
   - bestir
    
4. Compel to leave or emerge from a place, especially by force or pressure
   "The loud noise roused the bears from their den";
   - rout out, drive out, force out

Derived forms: rousings

See also: barnstorming, provocative, stimulating

Type of: alter, change, change of state, displace, disturb, modify, move, trouble, upset

Encyclopedia: Rouse, Mike