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animated

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "alive," past participle adjective from animate (v.). Meaning "mentally excited" is from 1530s; "full of activity" from 1580s. The "moving pictures" sense is attested from 1895; of cartoons from 1897. Related: Animatedly .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN discussion ▪ And when that didn't work, he had an animated discussion with team manager Maurizio Mancini before stamping off. ▪ One tapestry, for instance, shows an Elf and a Dwarf in animated discussion . EXAMPLES ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news" [syn: alive ] [ant: unanimated ] made to appear to move as living creatures do; "an animated cartoon"; "animated ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. v (en-past of: animate )

Usage examples of animated.

The ubiquitous geocomputing network there was crude compared to the varied services on Earth, but it did the job, and did it without inserting animated advertorials, which was a blessing.

Over in one corner, a bulbous Aalan was in animated conversation with a hermaphroditic CloBonner concerning ambisexual ethics.

His soldiers, animated with martial and religious enthusiasm, assaulted the camp of Litorius.

Romania and Anatolia, so often torn asunder by private ambition, were animated by a strong and invincible tendency of cohesion.

The bookseller led the way back to his desk, where he rummaged among the litter and finally found a scrap of paper on which he had written: Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising.

And it had never seemed more worth it than tonight, Clair thought, her features animated.

He possessed a certain vicious charm that constituted something of an attractant to the ladies and allowed him to get into places and away with things that defeated less animated types like Codd and Johns.

Above all those beauties, I could see the shape of two globes which Apelles would have taken for the model of those of his lovely Venus, and the rapid, inequal movement of which proved to me that those ravishing hillocks were animated.

Captain Desai, and his attitude often resulted in conversations with her on these and related topics that could be, for lack of a better word, animated.

It has been supposed that no common motive could have animated them to such lavish expenditure of money, time, and labor as the process of embalming required.

The long memory of their independence is the firmest pledge of its perpetuity and succeeding generations are animated to prove their descent, and to maintain their inheritance.

Dessert was nearly over, the conversation was very animated, when suddenly the intended husband of Angelique claimed our attention for the reading of a sonnet which he had composed and dedicated to me.

I have never seen, never touched, anything more beautiful, and the two magnificent globes of the Venus de Medicis, even if they had been animated by the spark of life given by Prometheus, would have yielded the palm to hose of my divine nun.

She finally spotted Hander, easily identifiable by his unruly shock of red hair and animated discourse.

Then we noticed that one of the khaki uniforms surrounded by a dozen others at the bar was shaped in a disturbingly different and disturbingly familiar way, and that it came with softly wavy brown hiar and a young, animated, unutterably feminine face.