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Animated   /ˈænəmˌeɪtəd/  /ˈænəmˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Animated

adjective
1.
Having life or vigor or spirit.  Synonym: alive.  "Animated conversation" , "Became very animated when he heard the good news"  Antonym: unanimated.
2.
Made to appear to move as living creatures do.  "Animated puppets"


Animate

verb
(past & past part. animated; pres. part. animating)
1.
Heighten or intensify.  Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate.
2.
Give lifelike qualities to.  Synonyms: animise, animize.
3.
Make lively.  Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up.  Antonym: deaden.
4.
Give new life or energy to.  Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify.  "This will renovate my spirits" , "This treatment repaired my health"



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"Animated" Quotes from Famous Books



... They turned the corner into Fourth Street and moved south. As if sensing the need of further explanation here on the esplanade, where all seemed acquainted, she began in a slightly more animated tone: ...
— Stubble • George Looms
... been a quiet auditor to many animated discussions among the young people as to what they wanted and were to get, in which the subject of prudence and economy was discussed, with quotations of advice thereon given in serious good faith by various friends and relations who lived easily on incomes four or five times ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... what were my feelings on treading the shore which had once been animated with the bustle of departure, and whose sands had been printed by the last footstep of Columbus. The solemn and sublime nature of the event that had followed, together with the fate and fortunes of those concerned in it, filled the mind with vague yet melancholy ideas. It was like viewing ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving
... end of which was a larger grated window, opening into a smaller room. In a few moments the Lady Superior entered. She was a tall, handsome woman, and surprised my Protestant prejudices by receiving us very cordially, and immediately engaging with Mr. Stowe in a very lively, animated conversation in Spanish. Suddenly ...
— Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 • Various
... confessional attitude of the General Synod South, organized in the same year. Moreover, at its first convention in 1863, the General Synod in the Confederate States, the liberal-minded Bachman presiding, after animated discussions, declared in favor of a qualified subscription to the Augsburg Confession. Unanimously and solemnly the following doctrinal basis was adopted: 1. That the Holy Scriptures are the sole infallible rule of faith and practise; 2. that the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, ...
— American Lutheranism - Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General - Council, United Synod in the South) • Friedrich Bente


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