inspiring


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in·spir·ing

 (ĭn-spīr′ĭng)
adj.
Tending to enliven, motivate, or exalt: an inspiring eulogy.

in·spir′ing·ly adv.
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inspiring

(ɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ)
adj
stimulating; animating; invigorating; providing inspiration
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.inspiring - stimulating or exalting to the spirit
uninspiring - depressing to the spirit; "a villa of uninspiring design"
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inspiring

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Translations

inspiring

[ɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ] adj [person, teacher, leader] → passionnant(e); [performance] → brillant(e); [example, story, book] → exaltant(e), inspirant(e)
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inspiring

adj speech, teacher, leader, speaker, exampleinspirierend; this subject/translation isn’t particularly inspiringdieses Thema/diese Übersetzung begeistert einen nicht gerade; she is an inspiring teacherals Lehrerin ist sie eine Inspiration
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inspiring

[ɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ] adjispiratore/trice, stimolante
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But again, Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear or pity.
The getting of your anchor was a noisy operation on board a merchant ship of yesterday - an inspiring, joyous noise, as if, with the emblem of hope, the ship's company expected to drag up out of the depths, each man all his personal hopes into the reach of a securing hand - the hope of home, the hope of rest, of liberty, of dissipation, of hard pleasure, following the hard endurance of many days between sky and water.
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