different between animated vs jocund

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

Etymology

From Old French jocond, from Latin i?cundus (“pleasant, agreeable”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: jo?cund
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??k?nd/, /?d???k?nd/
• (US) enPR: jäk??nd, j??k?nd, IPA^(key): /?d??k?nd/, /?d?o?k?nd/

Adjective

jocund (comparative more jocund, superlative most jocund)

1. Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.
   • 1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)

     There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund, that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college.

   • 1807, William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

     a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company

Derived terms

• jocundity
• jocundly
• jocundness

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