 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
inspired
adjective: of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine
inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine
Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired
performance" [syn: {divine}, {elysian}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inspire \In*spire"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Inspired}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Inspiring}.]
1. To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; --
opposed to {expire}.
2. To breathe; to blow gently. [Obs.]
And when the wind amongst them did inspire,
They wav['e]d like a penon wide dispread. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inspired \In*spired"\, adjective
1. Breathed in; inhaled.
2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence;
affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets;
the inspired writers.
3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine
inspiration; having divine authority; hence, sacred, holy;
-- opposed to {uninspired}, {profane}, or {secular}; as,
the inspired writings, that is, the Scriptures.
4. Moved to a higher level of thought, creativity, or
motivation.
[PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "inspired":
Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, afire,
apocalyptic, apostolic, appropriate, apt, canonical, comely,
conceptive, conceptual, correct, creative, esemplastic, evangelic,
evangelistic, fecund, felicitous, fertile, fired, fit, fitting,
germinal, gospel, happy, ideational, ideative, imaginative,
ingenious, inventive, just, notional, on fire, original,
originative, pregnant, productive, prolific, proper, prophetic,
revealed, revelational, scriptural, seemly, seminal, shaping,
teeming, textual, textuary, theopneustic, visioned, well-chosen,
well-expressed, well-put
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