Word Meanings - GOAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates. The daily goad urging him to the daily toil. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GOAD)

• Spur
• Incite
• goad
• Instigate
• impel
• urge
• stimulate

Related words: (words related to GOAD)

• IMPELLENT
  Having the quality of impelling.
• INSTIGATE
  To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime. He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. Bp. Warburton. Syn. --
• INCITEMENT
  1. The act of inciting. 2. That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope. Syn. -- Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse;
• INCITE
  To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak. Syn. -- Excite; stimulate; instigate;
• STIMULATE
  To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of , as by electricity. Syn. -- To animate; incite; encourage; impel; urge; instigate; irritate; exasperate; incense. (more info) 1. To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse,
• IMPEL
  To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way. The surge impelled me on a craggy coast. Pope. Syn. -- To instigate; incite; induce; influence; force; drive; urge; actuate; move.
• INCITER
  One who, or that which, incites.
• IMPELLER
  One who, or that which, impels.
• ZINCITE
  Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.
• INSTIMULATE
  Not to stimulate; to soothe; to quiet. Cheyne.