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animated

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ.tɪd//

Full of life or spirit; lively; vigorous; spritely.

adjective

  1. 1

    Full of life or spirit; lively; vigorous; spritely.

    an animated discussion

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    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

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of animatesimple past and past participle of animate

Forms

comparative
more animated
superlative
most animated
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).