Antonyms for stirring
ˈstɜr ɪŋstir·ring

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1. • Agitation

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1. stirringnoun

   agitating a liquid with an implement

   "constant stirring prevents it from burning on the bottom of the pan"

   Antonyms:
   unstimulating, unexciting, unmoving

   Synonyms:
   inspiration

2. inspiration, stirringadjective

   arousing to a particular emotion or action

   Antonyms:
   unmoving, unstimulating, unexciting

   Synonyms:
   breathing in, aspiration, inhalation, inspiration, brainchild, divine guidance, intake

3. rousing, stirringadjective

   capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

   "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues"

   Antonyms:
   unstimulating, unmoving, unexciting

   Synonyms:
   soul-stirring, rousing

4. stirring, soul-stirringadjective

   exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions

   "a stirring speech"

   Antonyms:
   unexciting, unstimulating, unmoving

   Synonyms:
   soul-stirring, rousing

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1. stirringadjective

   Synonyms:
   animated, lively, strenuous, active, enterprising

How to use stirring in a sentence?

1. Dominic Grieve:

   Boris Johnson has decided to be a populist politician. That's a very dangerous thing to do, because stirring up people against parliament is not going to solve the country's problems. It will create more anger, more tension.

2. Michael Behrenfeld:

   The features that jump out so clearly represent the influence of ocean eddies and physical stirring on the concentration of phytoplankton pigments and, possibly, colored dissolved organic matter.

3. Charlie Hebdo:

   If Counterterrorism John Miller factored that, plus the events in Texas the other day where violence stirring around the same issue happened, and there are calls on social media for more violence around that issue against the same targets, this becomes a very obvious place to have a lot of protection.

4. Strobe Talbott:

   Putin is not a good strategist. He is stirring up a hornet's nest of Sunni Muslims who will hold a grudge against him, he already had an internal problem with Islamist extremism and he now has an external problem since ISIS was responsible for the Sinai plane bombing.

5. President Catherine Samba-Panza:

   On the ground, we know the elements who are stirring things up, who are intrumentalizing and feeding this insecurity, we know that former dignitaries in Central African Republic want to be back in charge.

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