Scintillating vs Animated - What's the difference?
scintillating | animated | Related terms |
That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.
* 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 147:
* 2012 , (The Economist), 13 Oct 2012,
Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty.
* 1864 , (Edgar Allen Poe),
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, title= Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
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(animate)
Scintillating is a related term of animated.
As verbs the difference between scintillating and animated
is that scintillating is while animated is (animate).As adjectives the difference between scintillating and animated
is that scintillating is that scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling while animated is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.scintillating
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(en adjective)- On the scintillating water yellow and blue boats bobbed up and down.
Obituary: Nguyen Chi Thien, citing (Nguyen Chi Thien)
- They sank me into the ocean / Wishing me to remain in the depths. / I became a deep sea diver / And came up covered with scintillating pearls.
- Her sketches and tales may be said to be cleverly written. They are lively, easy, conventional, scintillating with a species of sarcastic wit, which might be termed good were it in any respect original.
Southampton 1-2 Man Utd, passage=The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up. }}