animated

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having life or vigor or spirit

   an animated and expressive face

2. 2
   adj

   made to appear to move as living creatures do

   an animated cartoon

3. 3
   adj

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

   an animated discussion

4. 4
   adj

   Endowed with life.

   Throughout animated 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.

5. 5
   adj

   Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that have the illusion of motion through the use of computer graphics or stop-action filming.

   an animated film

6. 6
   verb

   simple past and past participle of animate