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inspiring - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: inspiring
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rousing
Synonyms: encouraging, exciting, exhilarating, moving, refreshing, stimulating, stirring, uplifting, animating, enlivening, exalting, heartening, inspirational, inspiriting, motivating
Main Entry: inspire
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: encourage, stimulate
Synonyms: affect, animate, arouse, carry, cause, elate, embolden, enliven, exalt, excite, exhilarate, galvanize, get*, hearten, imbue, impress, infect, inflame, influence, inform, infuse, instill, invigorate, motivate, occasion, produce, provoke, quicken, reassure, set up, spark, spur, stir, strike, sway, touch, trigger, urge, work up, be responsible for, commove, endue, enkindle, fire up, give impetus, give one an idea, give rise to, inspirit, start off
Antonyms: discourage, dissuade
Main Entry: clarion
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clear, stirring sound
Synonyms: definite, inspiring, loud, sharp, shrill, strident, blaring, ringing
Main Entry: entertaining
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amusing, pleasing
Synonyms: absorbing, affecting, charming, cheerful, cheering, clever, compelling, delightful, droll, enchanting, engaging, engrossing, enjoyable, entrancing, exciting, fascinating, fun, funny, gas*, gay, humorous, impressive, inspiring, interesting, lively, moving, piquant, pleasant, pleasurable, poignant, priceless, provocative, restorative, riot, rousing, scream, stimulating, stirring, striking, thrilling, witty, be a ball, captivating, diverting, enthralling, enticing, recreative, relaxing, side-splitting
Antonyms: boring, dull, laborious, sad, tiring, unpleasant, unamusing, unfunny
Main Entry: exhilarating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stimulating, cheering
Synonyms: bracing, breathtaking, electric, exciting, eye-popping*, inspiring, intoxicating, invigorating, rousing, stirring, thrilling, tonic, uplifting, animating, animative, elevating, enlivening, exalting, exhilarant, exhilarative, exhilaratory, gladdening, inspiriting, quickening, stimulative, vitalizing
Antonyms: boring, depressing, discouraging, worrying, agitating, upsetting
Main Entry: heartwarming
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pleasant
Synonyms: cheering, encouraging, exhilarating, heartfelt, inspiring, joyous, loving, stirring, sweet, gladdening, heartening
Main Entry: influential
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: effective, powerful
Synonyms: affecting, authoritative, controlling, dominant, efficacious, famous, forcible, governing, important, impressive, inspiring, instrumental, leading, meaningful, momentous, moving, name, persuasive, potent, prominent, significant, strong, substantial, telling, touching, weighty, big-gun, big-wheel, guiding, hot-dog, major-league
Antonyms: ineffective, ineffectual, unimportant, unmoving, weak, uninfluential
Main Entry: intoxicating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: causing great happiness
Synonyms: exciting, exhilarating, eye-popping, heady, inspiring, provocative, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrilling, exhilarant, exhilarative
Antonyms: saddening, sobering
Main Entry: persuasive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: effective, influential
Synonyms: alluring, cogent, compelling, conclusive, convincing, credible, effectual, efficacious, efficient, eloquent, energetic, forceful, forcible, impressive, inspiring, logical, moving, plausible, pointed, potent, powerful, seductive, slick, smooth, sound, stimulating, stringent, strong, telling, touching, unctuous, valid, weighty, winning, actuating, convictive, enticing, impelling, inducing, inveigling, luring, swaying, wheedling
Antonyms: discouraging, ineffective, ineffectual, dampening, disheartening, dissuasive
Main Entry: stimulating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exciting
Synonyms: appealing, bracing, breathtaking, exhilarating, hair-raising*, hectic, inspiring, interesting, invigorating, lively, moving, provocative, rousing, spine-tingling*, stirring, thought-provoking, thrilling, adrenalizing, arousing, challenging, electrifying, energizing, gripping, titillating
Main Entry: stirring
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: moving, rousing
Synonyms: awakening, dynamic, emotional, exhilarating, heartbreaking, heartrending, inspiring, provoking, stimulating, touching, arousing, electrifying, gripping, inspirational, motivating
Main Entry: moving
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: affecting, exciting
Synonyms: affective, awakening, breathless, dynamic, eloquent, emotional, expressive, far-out*, hairy*, heartbreaking, heartrending, impressive, inspiring, meaningful, mind-blowing*, persuasive, poignant, provoking, rousing, sententious, significant, something*, stimulating, stirring, stunning, touching, arousing, emotive, facund, felt in gut, grabbed by, gripping, impelling, inspirational, mind-bending, motivating, propelling, quickening, rallying, stimulative, turned on by
Antonyms: unemotional, unexciting, unmoving, unaffecting
Main Entry: hopeful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: promising, auspicious
Synonyms: advantageous, beneficial, bright, cheerful, cheering, conducive, convenient, encouraging, exciting, expeditious, fair, favorable, fine, fit, flattering, fortunate, golden, good, gracious, halcyon, helpful, inspiring, likely, lucky, opportune, pleasant, pleasing, probable, propitious, reasonable, roseate, rosy*, rousing, stirring, suitable, sunny, timely, uplifting, well-timed, arousing, elating, enlivening, fortifying, heartening, inspiriting, promiseful, providential, reassuring
Notes: hopeful means having or inspiring hope; optimistic means expecting the best
Antonyms: desperate, hopeless, inauspicious, pointless, wretched, unpromising
Main Entry: original
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fresh, new
Synonyms: creative, fertile, formative, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspiring, inventive, novel, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual, avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, generative, innovational, innovatory, originative
Antonyms: borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn
Main Entry: passionate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: excited; enthusiastic
Synonyms: affecting, animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, dramatic, eager, eloquent, emotional, expressive, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, forceful, frenzied, glowing, headlong, heartfelt, heated, high-powered, hot*, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, inspiring, intense, melodramatic, moving, poignant, precipitate, spirited, stimulated, stirring, strong, thrilling, vehement, violent, warm, wild, zealous, high-pressure, hotblooded, quickened, steamed up
Antonyms: apathetic, dull, unenthusiastic, unexcited, unpassionate
Main Entry: actuate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: start a function or action, motivate
Synonyms: activate, animate, arouse, cause, drive, egg on*, energize, excite, impel, incite, induce, influence, inspire, instigate, mobilize, motivate, move, prompt, propel, quicken, rouse, spur, stimulate, turn on*, work up*, fire up, key up, put up to, work into lather
Antonyms: impede, stop
Main Entry: affect
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: influence, affect emotionally
Synonyms: act on, alter, change, disturb, impinge, impress, induce, influence, inspire, interest, involve, modify, move, overcome, perturb, prevail, regard, relate, stir, sway, touch, transform, upset
Main Entry: animate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring to life
Synonyms: activate, arouse, cheer, embolden, encourage, energize, enliven, exalt, excite, fire, gladden, hearten, impel, incite, inform, inspire, instigate, invigorate, kindle, move, quicken, revive, rouse, spark, spur, stimulate, stir, urge, vivify, inspirit, liven, make alive, revivify, vitalize
Antonyms: deaden, discourage, kill
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