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1. Exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions
   "a stirring speech";
   - soul-stirring
    
2. Capable of or likely to induce emotions, enthusiasm or excitement
   "stirring events such as wars and rescues";
   - rousing

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
   - inspiration

1. Move an implement through in order to mix
   "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil"
    
2. Move very slightly
   "He stirred in his seat";
   - shift, budge, agitate, scooch [informal]
    
3. Arouse feelings in
   "stir emotions";
   - stimulate, excite
    
4. Excite the feelings or emotions of; disturb the peace of
   "These stories stirred the community";
   - stimulate, shake, shake up, excite
    
5. Affect emotionally
   "A stirring movie";
   - touch
    
6. Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
   "stir the spectre of unemployment";
   - raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
    
7. To begin moving
   "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir";
   - arouse
    
8. Mix or add by stirring
   "Stir nuts into the dough"

Derived forms: stirrings

See also: inflame, moving, stimulating

Type of: affect, agitation, arousal, arouse, call up, displace, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, fire, impress, kindle, move, provoke, raise, rousing, sensitise [Brit], sensitize, strike, summon, work

Encyclopedia: Stirring