INSPIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inspired mean? 

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

1. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSPIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods

Synonyms:

divine; elysian; inspired

Context example:

an inspired performance

Similar:

glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)

 Context examples 

The work was inspired by Araujo's desire to study natural feeding behavior, as opposed to animals passively munching on food pellets.

(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)

What a strange light inspired them!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She in whom I might have inspired a dearer love, I had taught to be my sister.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Inspired by the water-repellent lotus leaf, the new surface works through a combination of nano-scale surface engineering and chemistry.

(Scientists Create Superbug-Resistant Self-Cleaning Surface, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He had many years ago received such a description of Miss Anne Elliot as had inspired him with the highest idea of her merit, and excited the warmest curiosity to know her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The production of the new Triton map was inspired by anticipation of NASA's New Horizons encounter with Pluto, coming up a little under a year from now.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

What feelings have they, the season, the air altogether inspired!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"My research was in a large part inspired by Vera Rubin's work in 1980 on the size of this galaxy," said Holwerda.

(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)