INSPIRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inspiring mean? 

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

1. stimulating or exalting to the spirit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSPIRING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stimulating or exalting to the spirit

Similar:

ennobling; exalting (tending to exalt)

Antonym:

uninspiring (depressing to the spirit)

 Context examples 

This change will have a significant effect on your career, inspiring enormous growth until Jupiter leaves Capricorn a year from now, on December 19, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"The great migrations of the world have been inspiring people for hundreds of years," said David Toews, a biologist at Penn State and leader of the research team.

(New insights into genetic basis of bird migration, National Science Foundation)

At any moment that soft, confidence-inspiring voice might break forth in a roar of wrath, that gentle and caressing hand transform itself into a vice-like grip to hold him helpless and administer punishment.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Giant trees like the ones we found are simply awe-inspiring, they remind us how amazing the Amazon rainforest is, and how important it is to preserve it.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

Miss Bingley immediately fixed her eyes on his face, and desired he would tell her what lady had the credit of inspiring such reflections.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I had always conceived a burial at sea to be a very solemn and awe-inspiring event, but I was quickly disillusioned, by this burial at any rate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He could not help regarding my exclamation as a presumption of my guilt and said in rather a severe tone, “I should have thought, young man, that the presence of your father would have been welcome instead of inspiring such violent repugnance.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was a long fight between my pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets with coppers.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was evident that he was unhappy; she wished it were equally evident that he still distinguished her by the same affection which once she had felt no doubt of inspiring; but hitherto the continuance of his preference seemed very uncertain; and the reservedness of his manner towards her contradicted one moment what a more animated look had intimated the preceding one.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I should be an affected woman if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I cannot be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible of his merit, and I am very glad to see you here, and can assure you that he feels an unusual friendship for you, and that you may rely on his protection.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)