different between animated vs gleeful

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æn.?.me?.t?d/
• Hyphenation: an?i?mated

Adjective

animated (comparative more animated, superlative most animated)

1. Full of life or spirit; lively; vigorous; spritely.
2. Endowed with life.
   • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection

     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.

3. Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that appear to move thought the use of computer graphics or stop-action filming.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Verb

animated

1. simple past tense and past participle of animate

Anagrams

• Mandaite, aminated, diamante, diamanté

English

Alternative forms

• gleefull (archaic)

Etymology

From glee +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??li?f?l/

Adjective

gleeful (comparative more gleeful, superlative most gleeful)

1. Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful.

Synonyms

• elated
• exhilarated
• high-spirited
• overjoyed

Related terms

• glee
• gleefully

Translations

Anagrams

• Fluegel