Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending to arouse or exalt: an inspiring eulogy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Inspiration.
Wiktionary
- adj. Providing inspiration; encouraging; stimulating.
- v. present participle of inspire.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. stimulating or exalting to the spirit
Examples
“I don't know about you, but that is what I call inspiring!”
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“The company got its start in Conway, N.H., in 2003, when New Hampshire native Casey Fenton and three others co-founded couchsurfing.org to promote intercultural understanding and what they call "inspiring experiences.”
“While I was researching a story on the mysterious death of the world's greatest Sherlock Holmes expert, I came upon a reference to Fawcett's role in inspiring Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World.”
“What I find really amazing and inspiring is this – bloggers through their vast collective readership have so much power to impact and change the world through their writing and by providing leadership.”
Help Alleviate World Poverty with the Power of Your Blog | Write to Done
“But even more inspiring is he lives with the same intensity off the road as well.”
What Lance Armstrong Can Teach Us About Motivation | Write to Done
“The Blind Side, while inspiring, is a little myopic.”
“They also mentioned that it was through NLM accounts of some of the liturgical initiatives that others have been undertaking, which played a part in inspiring and giving confidence to those who were proposing and organizing the usus antiquior at the University of Toronto Newman Centre.”
Usus Antiquior at the University of Toronto Newman Centre, March 20th
“I thought today that probably the best way that bloomsday can be inspiring is not to dress up in leopold bloom outfits, but to slip inside the day, slip inside the broad breadth and intimacy of the day, and that is available today and any day.”
“Cabins are meant as relaxing getaways in inspiring location, like the mountains, woods, or the shore.”
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“We talk about science fiction's role in inspiring science, the effect science developments has on the genre, gaming, the Matrix trilogies, and genetic engineering.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inspiring’.
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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Overwhelming
Descriptive, emotional, powerful words.
delightful, wonderful, spectacular, great, fantastic, amazing, magnificent, inspiring, intense, brilliant, blatant, hilarious and 2 more...
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bendachoo's list
idiosyncracy, inspiring, fluttering, smooth, serendipity, froth, electrified, desirous, captivated, disillusioned, nautical, eclectic and 2 more...
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sat words
conducive, frill, veneer, refutes, prevailing, reticent, stately, inspiring, introspective, communication, villainized
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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moi
all about me
zumba, salsa, wifey, momma, yokosuka, green tea, durty asian, air force, team, family, creative, inspiring and 13 more...
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Discriptive Adjectives
logo design descriptive words
clever, distinct, curious, easy, different, helpful, Imaginative, inspiring, diverse, unique, friendly, inquisitive and 29 more...
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SAT Words That Mean 'Lively'
A list of positive SAT words that mean 'lively.' Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master word list. Categorizing words according to meaning can aid in the memorization process.
brisk, dynamic, ebullient, exhilaration, exuberant, inspiring, provocative, scintillating, stimulating, titillating
Tweets
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GHibbs My adjectival uses: 'That was an inspiring event. She is an inspiring person.' Aug 22, 2011