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Animated vs Enthusiastic - What's the difference?

animated | enthusiastic |

As adjectives the difference between animated and enthusiastic

is that animated is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous while enthusiastic is with zealous fervor; excited, motivated.

As a verb animated

is past tense of animate.

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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    Verb

    (head)
  • (animate)

    • Anagrams

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    enthusiastic

    English

    (enthusiasm)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • With zealous fervor; excited, motivated.
    • A young man of a visionary and enthusiastic character. — W. Irving.
    an enthusiastic lover of art

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

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