Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to enliven, motivate, or exalt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inspiration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Providing
inspiration ;encouraging ;stimulating . - verb Present participle of
inspire .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective stimulating or exalting to the spirit
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Examples
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I don't know about you, but that is what I call inspiring!
Report: Warner To Deliver "Bipartisan" Message At Dem Convention? 2009
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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."
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By HOLLY RAMER 2011
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Cabins are meant as relaxing getaways in inspiring location, like the mountains, woods, or the shore.
Andrea Salvini’s Light Filled Modern American Cabin | Inhabitat 2009
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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 2010
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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.
Stranger than Fiction: Technology And Science Fiction Lou Anders 2009
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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.
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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 2009
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The Blind Side, while inspiring, is a little myopic.
Strong acting can't outrun shallow tale in 'The Blind Side' 2009
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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.
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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 2009
GHibbs commented on the word inspiring
My adjectival uses: 'That was an inspiring event. She is an inspiring person.'
August 22, 2011