Word Meanings - INSPIRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSPIRING)

• Animated
• Boused
• excited
• inspirited
• exhilarated
• enlivened
• vivacious
• stirred
• lively
• brisk
• enlivening
• inspiring
• spirited

Related words: (words related to INSPIRING)

• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• BRISK
  1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth. 2. Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• INSPIRING
  Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.
• INSPIRATOR
  A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• EXCITATOR
  A kind of discarder.
• SPIRIT
  Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser.
• EXCITATE
  To excite. Bacon.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• EXHILARATING
  That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening. -- Ex*hil"a*ra`ting*ly, adv.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• GLOBOUS
  Spherical. Milton.
• INANIMATION
  Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• GLEBOUS; GLEBY
  Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. "Gleby land." Prior.
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• REANIMATION
  The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.