animated en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ.tɪd/
Meanings
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Full of life or spirit; lively; vigorous; spritely.
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.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:an animated discussion
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Endowed with life.
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.
1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection:
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Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that have the illusion of motion through the use of computer graphics or stop-action filming.
an animated film
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most animated | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more animated | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
inanimated · underanimated · animatedly · anicom · hyperanimated · animatedness · unanimated · nonanimated
Synonyms
brisk (full of life or spirit) · dynamic · living · claymated (composed of objects/drawings that appear to move) · animate (endowed with life) · peppy
Translations (21)
es animado (endowed with life) · mi hauoraora (endowed with life) · fi henkevä (endowed with life) · de lebhaft (endowed with life) · uk жва́вий (endowed with life) · fr animé (endowed with life) · sv livlig (endowed with life) · haw ehuehu (endowed with life) · sv animerad (endowed with life) · ca animat (endowed with life) · es vivo (endowed with life) · es vivaz (endowed with life) · ga ceolmhar (endowed with life) · ru оживлённый (endowed with life) · uk пожва́влений (endowed with life) · hy շնչավոր (endowed with life) · fi elävä (endowed with life) · ko 활발하다 (endowed with life) · gl animado (endowed with life) · cs živý (endowed with life) · ota دینج (endowed with life)