ANIMATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animating mean? 

• ANIMATING (adjective)
  The adjective ANIMATING has 1 sense:

1. giving spirit and vivacity

  Familiarity information: ANIMATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Giving spirit and vivacity

Synonyms:

animating; enlivening

Similar:

invigorating (imparting strength and vitality)

 Context examples 

We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was an animating subject, and Mrs. Bennet seemed incapable of fatigue while enumerating the advantages of the match.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It inspired little more than an animating curiosity.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The want of his animating influence appeared to be peculiarly felt one day that he had been summoned to Millcote on business, and was not likely to return till late.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Maria, wanting Henry Crawford's animating support, thought the subject better avoided.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They gaily ascended the downs, rejoicing in their own penetration at every glimpse of blue sky; and when they caught in their faces the animating gales of a high south-westerly wind, they pitied the fears which had prevented their mother and Elinor from sharing such delightful sensations.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When she was gone, Mr. Peggotty, who had not exhibited a trace of any feeling but the profoundest sympathy, looked round upon us, and nodding his head with a lively expression of that sentiment still animating his face, said in a whisper: She's been thinking of the old 'un!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Besides, there is that peculiar voice of hers, so animating and piquant, as well as soft: it cheers my withered heart; it puts life into it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His situation was new and animating.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To amuse her, and be agreeable in her eyes, seemed all that he cared for—and Emma, glad to be enlivened, not sorry to be flattered, was gay and easy too, and gave him all the friendly encouragement, the admission to be gallant, which she had ever given in the first and most animating period of their acquaintance; but which now, in her own estimation, meant nothing, though in the judgment of most people looking on it must have had such an appearance as no English word but flirtation could very well describe.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)