inspired

adjective

1. 1

   Having excellence through inspiration.

   The actor's inspired performance of Hamlet's soliloquy left the audience dumbfounded.

   New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.

2. 2

   Filled with inspiration or motivated.

   The artist was inspired to paint a true masterpiece.

   He was inspired to learn to fly.

3. 3

   Infused with power or knowledge granted from a supernatural entity; possessing inspiration from the divine.

   Korean shamans are thought to be capable of inspired speech, in which they convey the words of the gods.

   The point which I wish to establish is this, that the whole prediction of the future establishment of the religion of the Gospel was an inspired prediction, a prediction answerable to the highest test of a supernatural prescience.

4. 4

   Drawn into the lungs; inhaled.

5. 5

   obsoleteInflated.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of inspiresimple past and past participle of inspire.

   Government-inspired rumors

   But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.

Forms

comparative

more inspired

superlative

most inspired