inspired
- aroused, animated, or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence: an inspired poet.
- resulting from such inspiration: an inspired poem; an inspired plan.
- inhaled: inspired air.
Origin of inspired
inspire
- to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- to produce or arouse (a feeling, thought, etc.): to inspire confidence in others.
- to fill or affect with a specified feeling, thought, etc.: to inspire a person with distrust.
- to influence or impel: Competition inspired her to greater efforts.
- to animate, as an influence, feeling, thought, or the like, does: They were inspired by a belief in a better future.
- to communicate or suggest by a divine or supernatural influence: writings inspired by God.
- to guide or control by divine influence.
- to prompt or instigate (utterances, acts, etc.) by influence, without avowal of responsibility.
- to give rise to, bring about, cause, etc.: a philosophy that inspired a revolution.
- to take (air, gases, etc.) into the lungs in breathing; inhale.
- Archaic.
- to infuse (breath, life, etc.) by breathing (usually followed by into).
- to breathe into or upon.
- to give inspiration.
- to inhale.
Origin of inspire
Related Words for inspired
influenced, moved, animated, excited, encouraged, stirred, activated, galvanized, inspirited, roused, fired, exalted, possessed, transported, touched, divine, guided, uplifted, ecstaticExamples from the Web for inspired
Contemporary Examples of inspired
None of these, though, has inspired quite the same backlash as fluoride.
We take enough time off in between so that our batteries get recharged and we get inspired again.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s GreatnessMarlow Stern
January 7, 2015
Seeing what they were doing, I was inspired to add my vision to their technique.
An 18-year-old Swedish rapper/Internet meme has inspired legions of impressionable teens to get based in bucket hats.
The Cult of Yung Lean: ‘I’m Building An Anarchistic Society From the Ground Up’Marlow Stern
January 4, 2015
Ragtime, blues, country, jazz, soul, and rock and roll were all pioneered or inspired by black artists.
Historical Examples of inspired
Though younger than myself, she reciprocated the love she had inspired.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
They inspired me with a renewed confidence in our political future.
'Tis Sixty Years SinceCharles Francis Adams
He suspected that the chief emotions he inspired were curiosity and mischievousness.
Quaint CourtshipsVarious
I want you to know that it was you who inspired Sunday Weeks, if any one did.
Quaint CourtshipsVarious
Do you suppose I believed for a moment those delays were not inspired?
The Leopard WomanStewart Edward White
inspired
- aroused or guided by or as if aroused or guided by divine inspirationan inspired performance; she was like one inspired
- extremely accurate or apt but based on intuition rather than knowledge or logical deductionan inspired guess
inspire
- to exert a stimulating or beneficial effect upon (a person); animate or invigorate
- (tr; foll by with or to; may take an infinitive) to arouse (with a particular emotion or to a particular action); stir
- (tr) to prompt or instigate; give rise toher beauty inspired his love
- (tr; often passive) to guide or arouse by divine influence or inspiration
- to take or draw (air, gas, etc) into the lungs; inhale
- (tr) archaic
- to breathe into or upon
- to breathe life into
Word Origin for inspire
Word Origin and History for inspired
inspire
mid-14c., enspiren, "to fill (the mind, heart, etc., with grace, etc.);" also "to prompt or induce (someone to do something)," from Old French enspirer (13c.), from Latin inspirare "inflame; blow into" (see inspiration), a loan-translation of Greek pnein in the Bible. General sense of "influence or animate with an idea or purpose" is from late 14c. Also sometimes used in literal sense in Middle English Related: Inspired; inspires; inspiring.
inspire
(ĭn-spīr′)- To draw in breath; to inhale.