dynamic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an efficient incentive
    moral force.
    • they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches
  2. adjective characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
    dynamical.
    • a dynamic market
    • a dynamic speaker
    • the dynamic president of the firm
  3. adjective of or relating to dynamics
  4. adjective (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being
    active.

WordNet

Dy*nam"ic, Dy*nam"ic*al adjective (Also<
  • Dynamic
  • Dynamical
)
Etymology
Gr. powerful, fr. power, fr. to be able; cf. L. durus hard, E. dure: cf. F. dynamique.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.
    Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau.
    The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes. J. Peile.
  2. Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology.
    As natural science has become more dynamic, so has history. Prof. Shedd.

Webster 1913