animating Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb heighten or intensify
    invigorate; enliven; animate; inspire; exalt.
    • These paintings exalt the imagination
  2. verb give lifelike qualities to
    animize; animate; animise.
    • animated cartoons
  3. verb make lively
    enliven; liven; animate; liven up; invigorate.
    • let's liven up this room a bit
  4. verb give new life or energy to
    repair; revivify; recreate; reanimate; revive; renovate; vivify; animate; quicken.
    • A hot soup will revive me
    • This will renovate my spirits
    • This treatment repaired my health
  5. adjective satellite giving spirit and vivacity
    enlivening.

WordNet


An"i*ma"ting adjective
Definitions
  1. Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.

Webster 1913