PROPULSIVE Synonyms

• driving or forcing

• tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument

• hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver

• the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal

• having the power of driving or impelling

• acting with vigor

• characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality

• of or relating to dynamics

• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

• an efficient incentive

• possessing or exerting or displaying energy

• working hard to promote an enterprise

• characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical)

• forceful and definite in expression or action

• markedly effective as if by emotional pressure

• proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus

• without forethought

• having the power of driving or impelling

• determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

• characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

• relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith

• characterized by motion

• supplying motive force

• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

• a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music

• a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration

• causing or able to cause motion

• impelling to action

• in motion

• arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion

• used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion

• having great power or force or potency or effect

• (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

• strong enough to knock down or overwhelm

• having great influence

• (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

• displaying superhuman strength or power

• rousing or quickening activity or the senses

• that stimulates

• making lively and cheerful

• having strength or power greater than average or expected

• having a strong physiological or chemical effect

• not faint or feeble

• having or wielding force or authority

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• of good quality and condition; solidly built

• of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• freshly made or left

• strong and sure

• characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity

• strong and active physically or mentally

• any substance that propels

• tending to or capable of propelling

• any substance that propels

• tending to or capable of propelling