Amazed vs Animated - What's the difference?

amazed | animated |


As adjectives the difference between amazed and animated

is that amazed is astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised while animated is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.

As verbs the difference between amazed and animated

is that amazed is (amaze) while animated is (animate).

amazed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.
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  • *:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}

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    (head)
  • (amaze)
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    animated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

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    (head)
  • (animate)
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