Animated vs Merry - What's the difference?
animated | merry | Related terms |
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;
(animate)
Jolly and full of high spirits
* Shakespeare
Festive and full of fun and laughter
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
Brisk
Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
* Spenser
(euphemistic) drunk; tipsy
Animated is a related term of merry.
As an adjective animated
is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.As a verb animated
is (animate).As a proper noun merry is
originally a nickname for a merry person.animated
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(er)- We had a very merry Christmas.
- I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
- f I have the chance, I will make our worshipful Sheriff pay right well for that which he hath done to me. Maybe I may bring him some time into Sherwood Forest and have him to a right merry feast with us.
- Everyone was merry at the party.
- The play moved along at a merry pace.
- a merry jest
- merry wind and weather
- Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.