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ANIMATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having life or vigor or spirit
Example:
became very animated when he heard the good news
Synonyms:
alive; animated
Classified under:
Similar:
enlivened; spirited (made lively or spirited)
lively; vital (full of spirit; full of life)
reanimated; revived (given fresh life or vigor or spirit)
Antonym:
unanimated (not animated or enlivened; dull)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Made to appear to move as living creatures do
Example:
animated puppets
Classified under:
Similar:
moving (used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb animate
Context examples:
As animated, as diversified, as social, but with circumstances of superiority undescribable.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The team made maps of where and when migration occurred over the past 24 years and animated these to illustrate, for example, "the most intensive migration areas in the continental United States," Sheldon explains.
(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)
He was animated now with the courage of fear.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But Martin could not puzzle out what strange whim animated them to this general acceptance of the things they had persistently rejected for two years.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On entering his room, I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rooms were shut up, the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the residents left; and, as there is nothing to admire in the buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing machines and company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town, are what the stranger's eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch to nothing more than a short decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could, with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject by a question which had been long uppermost in her thoughts; it was, Have you ever read Udolpho, Mr. Thorpe?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
How cheerful, how animated, how suspicious, how busy their imaginations all are!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded—
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Amongst the objects in the scene, they soon discovered an animated one; it was a man on horseback riding towards them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
