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Webster 1913 Edition


Animated

An′i-maˊted

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Adj.
Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
Animated sounds.”
Pope.
Animated bust.”
Gray.
Animated descriptions.”
Lewis.

Webster 1828 Edition


Animated

AN'IMATED

, pp.
1.
Being endowed with anima life, as the various classes of animated beings.
2.
a. Lively; vigorous; full of spirit; indicating animation; as an animated discourse.

Definition 2024


animated

animated

English

Adjective

animated (comparative more animated, superlative most animated)

  1. Full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
    an animated discussion
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
      The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; [] . Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
  2. Endowed with life.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive.

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:animated

Translations

Verb

animated

  1. simple past tense and past participle of animate

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