animated

1. 1
   adjective

   Made of drawings or objects that seem to move, using computers or special filming.

   We watched an animated movie about a talking dog.

   The museum showed an animated short made with clay figures.

2. 2
   adjective

   Lively and full of energy, like a person who talks or moves with excitement.

   The kids had an animated chat about their favorite games.

   Grandpa gets animated whenever he talks about baseball.

   Similarlively, spirited, heated, vivacious, energetic

   Oppositelifeless, listless, dull

3. 3
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of animate. Use it for something that was made to move or made lively.

   She animated the drawings on her laptop last night.

   His funny stories animated the quiet dinner party.

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4. 4
   adjective

   Living, or having life in it, not dead or lifeless.

   The old book sorts the world into animated things, like birds and fish, and lifeless things, like stones.

   The poem says that every animated thing, from ants to whales, needs the sun.

   Similarliving, live

   Oppositelifeless, inanimate, dead

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