• IPA^(key):/ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ.tɪd/

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• Hyphenation:an‧i‧mated

animated (comparativemoreanimated,superlativemostanimated)

1. Full of life or spirit;lively;vigorous;spritely.

   ananimated discussion

   • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:

     The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to ananimated competition.

2. Endowed with life.
   • 1825,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Aids to Reflection:

     Throughoutanimated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive.

3. Composed ofinanimate objects ordrawings that have theillusion of motion through the use ofcomputer graphics orstop-action filming.

   ananimated film

• (full of life or spirit):brisk,dynamic,peppy; see alsoThesaurus:active
• (endowed with life):animate,living; see alsoThesaurus:alive
• (composed of objects/drawings that appear to move):claymated

animated

1. simplepast andpastparticiple ofanimate

• Mandaite,aminated,diamante,diamanté