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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heartwarming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasant |
| Synonyms: | cheering, encouraging, exhilarating, heartfelt, inspiring, joyous, loving, stirring, sweet, gladdening, heartening |
| Main Entry: | impressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerful, influential |
| Synonyms: | absorbing, affecting, august, awe-inspiring, consequential, cool*, deep*, dramatic, effective, eloquent, excited, exciting, extraordinary, forcible, grand, impassioned, important, imposing, inspiring, intense, lavish, luxurious, majestic, massive, momentous, monumental, moving, noble, notable, penetrating, prime*, profound, remarkable, rousing, splendid, stately, stirring, striking, sumptuous, superb, thrilling, touching, towering, vital, arresting, well-done |
| Antonyms: | inconsequential, ineffective, insignificant, unimportant, weak, unimpressive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | portentous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exciting; foreboding |
| Synonyms: | alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astounding, destined, doomed, exhilarating, extraordinary, fated, fateful, haunting, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, important, inauspicious, inspiring, intriguing, ominous, phenomenal, prophetic, remarkable, suggestive, threatening, thrilling, augural, premonitory |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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