Animating Synonyms and Antonyms

Serving to enliven
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. enlivening
  2. quickening
  3. rousing
  4. stimulating
  5. vitalizing
  6. vivifying
To arouse to action or put in motion
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. activating
To raise the spirits of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. exalting
  2. uplifting
  3. lifting
  4. inspiriting
  5. inspiring
  6. flushing
  7. exhilarating
  8. elevating
  9. elating
  10. buoying
Heighten or intensify
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. invigorating
  2. enlivening
  3. lighting
  4. exalting
  5. inspiring
  6. brightening
To make alive
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. vivifying
  2. vitalizing
  3. quickening
Antonyms:
  1. deadening

Words Related to Animating

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Animating Sentence Examples

  • The spirit of Rome appears only as animating the protest of Lucan, the satire of Persius and Juvenal, the sombre picture which Tacitus paints of the annals of the empire.

  • It was impossible for Schelling, the animating principle of whose thought was ever the reconciliation of differences, not to take and to take speedily the step towards the conception of the uniting basis of which nature and spirit are manifestations, forms, or consequences.

  • But the main purport of the treatise was the exposition of an elaborate system of celestial harmonies depending on the various and varying velocities of the several planets, of which the sentient soul animating the sun was the solitary auditor.

  • The animating spirit of love, moreover, has here deepened and intensified into a crystalline harmony of earthly passion with the love that is divine and transcending; the outward manifestation is regarded as a symbol of a sentiment at once eternal and quintessential.

  • On the speculative side, Ramanuja also met Sankara's strictly monistic theory by another recognizing Vishnu as identical with Brahma as the Supreme Spirit animating the material world as well as the individual souls which have become estranged from God through unbelief, and can only attain again conscious union with him through devotion or love (bhakti).

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