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# animated

adjective (animated); verb form (animate, animates, animated, animating)

«animated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An animated film or cartoon is made from many drawings, models or computer pictures shown quickly so they seem to move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#m1)
2. An animated person or talk is lively, excited and full of energy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#m2)
3. Animated is the past form of animate: brought to life or made to move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life, animated films, cartoons and series are popular with children; animators make them frame by frame. In art and computing lessons, pupils make simple animations with flip books or code. In stories, someone talks in an animated way when excited.

### Examples

- We watched an animated film about talking cars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#x1)
- Animated cartoons are made from thousands of pictures. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#x2)
- The children had an animated discussion about dinosaurs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#x3)
- Grandad became animated when he talked about football. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#x4)
- The class animated a clay model for a short film. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#x5)
- The emoji is animated and waves at you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#x6)
- When the prince and princess lay thus side by side, an animated dispute as to their respective charms arose between the fairy and the genius. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/#x7)

### Note

Adjective and past form of animate. Animation is the noun for the art or the film. Animated does not always mean a cartoon: an animated conversation is a lively one.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «animated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«animated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/animated.html) on Mova free.