Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Energetic; endowed with or manifesting energy.
- In physics, exhibiting energy or force; producing direct physical effect; acting; operating: as, heat is an energic agent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective In a state of action; acting; operating.
- adjective Having energy or great power; energetic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In a state of
action ;acting ;operating . - adjective Having
energy or great power;energetic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"energic" în urma măsurilor anunţate de Traian Băsescu, precizând însă că partidul pe care îl conduce nu susţine violenţe stradale şi că România nu trebuie să ajungă în situaţia
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Medicine was emerging as a science and was dominated by the mechanistic and energic principles of the Helmholz School, which viewed mental disorders as organic in nature Wyss, 1966: 45-145.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Medicine was emerging as a science and was dominated by the mechanistic and energic principles of the Helmholz School, which viewed mental disorders as organic in nature Wyss, 1966: 45-145.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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They responded with a highly spirited and energic match against the Saudis, "really playing to win".
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They responded with a highly spirited and energic match against the Saudis, "really playing to win".
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And a hungry urg, with the resources to reach outside of its own time and implode a man to light, could certainly satisfy its energic needs locally.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
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These snakes, like all energic life, aspire to their peculiar
The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972
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But, on the other hand, they must possess, to an astonishing degree, the faculty to concentrate thought on a single objectthe energic faculty that we call will.
The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain 1921
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If Freud and Jung had been of the party, can it be doubted that the one would have ascribed Phaeton's aviation to a wish-fulfilment of the flying-dream type, derived from a reminiscence of erotic motion-pleasure24 in childhood, or that Jung, for his part, would have said Phaeton was levitated by the energic force of a sublimation of the Ur-Libido, alias élan vital, alias Hormé!
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In the foregoing words of Emerson, there is brought to bear on dreams an energic conception of mind-action similar to that which Hobbes had developed in his Leviathan in 1651.
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