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Definition of Animated

1. Adjective. Having life or vigor or spirit. "Became very animated when he heard the good news"

2. Adjective. Made to appear to move as living creatures do. "Animated puppets"

Definition of Animated

1. a. Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.

Definition of Animated

1. Adjective. Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. Typically used in ''an animated discussion''. ¹

2. Verb. (past of animate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Animated

1. animate [v] - See also: animate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animated

animalize animalized animalizes animalizing animallike animally animalness animals animanga animas

animastic animat animate animate being animate thing animated (current term) animated cartoon animated cartoons animated oat animatedly

animately animateness animatenesses animater animaters animates animatic animatics animating animatingly

Literary usage of Animated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"The happiness of this most happy day received its completion in the animated contemplation of his worth which this comparison produced. Chapter ILF. ..."

2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... and who by the breath of his genius animated or re-created their several family heroes into everlasting types of character; that I would ascribe the ..."

3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1850)
"... And then after some ten days, as they find him animated and resolved, they make use of him. The devil hath many such factors, many such engines, ..."

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