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1. Having life or vigour or spirit
   "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"
   - alive
    
2. Made to appear to move as living creatures do
   "an animated cartoon"; "animated puppets"

1. Heighten or intensify
   "These paintings animate the imagination"
   - inspire, invigorate, enliven, exalt
    
2. Give lifelike qualities to
   "animated cartoons"
   - animize, animise [Brit]
    
3. Make lively
   - enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate
    
4. Give new life or energy to
   "A hot soup will animate me"
   - recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

See also: animatedly, animator, enlivened, full of life, lively, moving, reanimated, revived, spirited, vital

Type of: alter, arouse, brace, change, energise [Brit], energize, excite, modify, perk up, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir

Antonym: unanimated

Encyclopedia: Animate