<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>rousing, exciting, or thrilling: a stirring speech.</li><li>moving, active, bustling, or lively: a stirring business.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a mental impulse, sensation, or feeling: stirrings of hope.</li><li>a small movement: the best thing she could do was to pretend that her husband's nocturnal stirrings didn't wake her.</li></ul>