animating

Enlivening.

Adjective

  1. Enlivening.
    • He was a beloved brother indeed to me, and his letters have been very animating and strengthening to me in my great solitude. - 1862, Lydia Ann Barclay, A Selection from the Letters of Lydia Ann Barclay, page 432:
    • The sport is excellent and most animating. - 1865, William Nelson Hutchinson, Dog breaking: the most expeditious, certain and easy method, page 46:
    • The irregular and undisciplined wars which it was her business to describe were naturally far more prolific of extraordinary incidents, unexpected turns of fortune, and striking displays of individual talent, and vice...

Forms

more animating most animating

Derived

animatingly

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of animate