ANIMATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animated mean? 

• ANIMATED (adjective)
  The adjective ANIMATED has 2 senses:

1. having life or vigor or spirit

2. made to appear to move as living creatures do

  Familiarity information: ANIMATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having life or vigor or spirit

Synonyms:

alive; animated

Context example:

became very animated when he heard the good news

Similar:

enlivened; spirited (made lively or spirited)

lively; vital (full of spirit; full of life)

reanimated; revived (given fresh life or vigor or spirit)

Antonym:

unanimated (not animated or enlivened; dull)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Made to appear to move as living creatures do

Context example:

animated puppets

Similar:

moving (used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion)

 Context examples 

Em'ly, indeed, said little all the evening; but she looked, and listened, and her face got animated, and she was charming.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As though animated by a common impulse, the onlookers drew back to a respectful distance; nor were they again indiscreet enough to interrupt.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It made her animated—open hearted—she voluntarily said;—Oh! Miss Woodhouse, I hope nothing may happen to prevent the ball.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

From this time a new spirit of life animated the decaying frame of the stranger.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And now nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Every one seemed in high glee; laughter and conversation were general and animated.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Only one of my stupid speeches. I'm going to bed. Come, Peggy," said Jo, unfolding herself like an animated puzzle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I made no haste to return on deck, and when I did I was gratified to see Miss Brewster in animated conversation with Wolf Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Nay, Mama, if he is not to be animated by Cowper!—but we must allow for difference of taste.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When I was asked to recommend one for special service, I told the Admiralty they might take the names as they came, for the same spirit animated them all.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)