Does the sentence "Such a behavior will stimulate him to do a more follish thing." make sense?

Question

Any other way about how to use the word "stimulate"?

OK... i just don't know the usage of it. Thanks.

Answer 1

"Such behaviour will stimulate him to more foolish action."
(or behavior, if you are writing in American English.) It is a little awkward to speak in terms of stimulating a person to do a thing, and my suggestion is more succinct.
My understanding of the word stimulate is that it is positive in meaning, so if I were looking for an example, I would say something like "further effort", rather than a foolish action. Normally when we speak of something leading to foolish behaviour/behavior, we use the word "incite" or "provoke".

Answer 2

The word is foolish, not follish and the sentence, though correct, doesn't sound natural. It would sound much better if you wrote, "Such behavior will lead him to do more foolish things" or "more foolishness."
Yet this isn't right either since behavior doesn't stimulate anyone to do anything. Behavior leads a person to do something. The behavior itself was stimulated by another factor. So, here you could say, "his bad behavior was stimulated (caused or increased) by the people he was with."

Stimulate means to cause movement and increase energy, excitement, or life forces. Look in a dictionary for more meanings.

1. Caffeine stimulates the brain.
2. People think cheering stimulates teams at sports events.
3. Your praise stimulated me to try harder.

There are three examples. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

I would use the word 'instigate' or 'motivate' rather than stimulate.

The sentence is NOT correct. Remove all 'a' in the sentence and correct the typing error 'follish' to 'foolish'. Change 'thing' to 'things'
'Such behaviour will stimulate him to do more foolish things'
Then strictly speaking the sentence is correct.

The word 'stimulate' could be used correctly in this sentence but it depends entirely on the context.
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Main Entry: stim·u·late
Pronunciation: -"lAt
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -lat·ed; -lat·ing
Etymology: Latin stimulatus, past participle of stimulare, from stimulus goad; perhaps akin to Latin stilus stem, stylus -- more at STYLE
transitive verb
1 : to excite to activity or growth or to greater activity : ANIMATE, AROUSE
2 a : to function as a physiological stimulus to b : to arouse or affect by a stimulant (as a drug)
intransitive verb : to act as a stimulant or stimulus
synonym see PROVOKE
- stim·u·la·tion / noun
- stim·u·la·tive /adjective
- stim·u·la·tor /noun
- stim·u·la·to·ry / adjective

Answer 4

The right sentence would be:

Such behavior will PROMPT him to do more foolish things.

Stimulate is not that right in the context of that sentence as prompt and urge is and since you use the word "more" then the usage of the word "things" is appropriate.

Answer 5

Yes this make since because a bad behavior will stimulate him to do foolish things.

Answer 6

This sentence makes perfect sense.
stimulate means ; to rouse to action or to incite.
If, for example , a person commits a crime and gets way with it, this may incite(stimulate )them to commit more serious crimes

Answer 7

A decent walk will stimulate him to give up smoking.~~

Answer 8

you could spell foolish correctly.

Answer 9

Yes or "Don't encourage him"