adj
Meaning 1
Full of life or spirit; lively; vigorous; spritely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- an animated discussion
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
animated
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ.tɪd/
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adj
Meaning 2
Endowed with life.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that have the illusion of motion through the use of computer graphics or stop-action filming.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- an animated film
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
simple past and past participle of animate
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
having life or vigor or spirit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an animated and expressive face
- animated conversation
- became very animated when he heard the good news
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: alive
Antonyms: unanimated
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
made to appear to move as living creatures do
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an animated cartoon
- animated puppets
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: շնչավոր (šnčʻavor) — endowed with life
- Catalan: animat — endowed with life
- Czech: živý — endowed with life
- Finnish: henkevä — endowed with life
- Finnish: elävä — endowed with life
- French: animé — endowed with life
- Galician: animado — endowed with life
- German: lebhaft — endowed with life
- Hawaiian: ehuehu — endowed with life
- Irish: ceolmhar — endowed with life
- Korean: 활발하다 (hwalbalhada) — endowed with life
- Māori: hauoraora — endowed with life
- Russian: оживлённый (oživljónnyj) — endowed with life
- Spanish: animado — endowed with life
- Spanish: vivo — endowed with life
- Spanish: vivaz — endowed with life
- Swedish: livlig — endowed with life
- Swedish: animerad — endowed with life
- Ottoman Turkish: دینج (dinc) — endowed with life
- Ukrainian: жва́вий (žvávyj) — endowed with life
- Ukrainian: пожва́влений (požvávlenyj) — endowed with life
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