Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Filled with activity, vigor, or spirit; lively.
- adjective Made or depicted using animation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Endowed with animal life: as, the various classes of animated beings.
- Lively; vigorous; full of life, action, spirit; indicating or representing animation: as, an animated discourse; an animated picture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation;
lively ;vigorous . Typically used in an animated discussion. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
animate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having life or vigor or spirit
- adjective made to appear to move as living creatures do
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Examples
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People argued back and forth for about 15 minutes in what he called an "animated debate" before the idea was tabled.
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We can always rely on NMA News to bring us the latest headlines in animated form.
The Charlie Sheen Hotel Room Incident Gets Animated (VIDEO) Katla McGlynn 2010
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Either of those in animated form would be cool to see.
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For those of you who like to find visual in-jokes in animated movies, there are numerous ones in The Princess and the Frog, including caricatures of various Disney employees and nods to previous films.
Princess and the Frog Animation Roundtable » DVDs Worth Watching 2010
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Brewster in animated conversation with Wolf Larsen.
Chapter 22 2010
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We can always rely on NMA News to bring us the latest headlines in animated form.
The Charlie Sheen Hotel Room Incident Gets Animated (VIDEO) Katla McGlynn 2010
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We can always rely on NMA News to bring us the latest headlines in animated form.
The Charlie Sheen Hotel Room Incident Gets Animated (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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We can always rely on NMA News to bring us the latest headlines in animated form.
The Charlie Sheen Hotel Room Incident Gets Animated (VIDEO) Katla McGlynn 2010
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We can always rely on NMA News to bring us the latest headlines in animated form.
The Charlie Sheen Hotel Room Incident Gets Animated (VIDEO) Katla McGlynn 2010
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Hello, Hello to feature in animated Disney film about two lovestruck garden gnomes
Elton John and Lady Gaga record duet Sean Michaels 2010
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