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Definitions: Enlivened |
EnlivenedAdjective1. Made sprightly or cheerful. 2. Made lively or spirited; "a meal enlivened by the music"; "a spirited debate". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enlivened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonym: EnlivenedSynonym: spirited (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unenlivened (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Enlivened |
| English words defined with "enlivened": spirited ♦ thrust ♦ unanimated. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "enlivened": Enliven. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When a beam of sunshine enlivened the court, when a glass of wine enlivened the porter, it was difficult to pass by No. |
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| "Enlivened" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 57.32% of the time. "Enlivened" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 57.32% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 36.59% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.1% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "enlivened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Finnish | vilkastua (become enlivened, become lively, get new life). (various references) | ||||
French | mouvementée. (various references) | ||||
German | belebte (freshened, variegated, vitalized, vivified), belebt (alive, animate, animated, animates, brisk, busy, enlivens, freshens, inspirits, lively, livens, living, variegates, vitalizes, vivifies). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 浮き立つ (to be enlivened, to be exhilarated). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | うきたつ (to be enlivened, to be exhilarated). (various references) | ||||
Manx | bioyrit (animated, smartened), bioit (animated, quickened). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | enliveneday | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "enlivened" (pronounced enlī"vund) |
| 6 | -l ī" v u n d | livened. |
| 4 | -v u n d | evened, leavened. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, envisioned, errand, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-n-n-v" | |
-2 letters: enliven, livened. | |
-3 letters: devein, eleven, endive, envied, evened, indene, leveed, levied, linden, needle, veiled, veined, vendee, venine. | |
-4 letters: delve, devel, devil, diene, edile, elide, inned, levee, levin, lieve, lined, linen, lived, liven, nieve, venin, vined. | |
-5 letters: deil, dele, deli, dene, deni, diel, dine, dive, eide, even, evil, idle, lend, lied, lien, line, linn, live, need, nene, neve, nevi, nide, nine, veil, vein, veld, vend, vide, vied, vile, vine. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-n-n-v" | |
+4 letters: nondeliveries. | |
+5 letters: overindulgence. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 6C 69 76 65 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. .-.. .. ...- . -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n l i v e n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 006C 0069 0076 0065 006E 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398078758871807170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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