inspired Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb heighten or intensify
    invigorate; enliven; animate; inspire; exalt.
    • These paintings exalt the imagination
  2. verb supply the inspiration for
    inspire.
    • The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work
  3. verb serve as the inciting cause of
    prompt; inspire; instigate.
    • She prompted me to call my relatives
  4. verb spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
    urge; inspire; exhort; barrack; cheer; urge on; root on; pep up.
    • The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
  5. verb fill with revolutionary ideas
    revolutionize; inspire; revolutionise.
  6. verb draw in (air)
    breathe in; inhale; inspire.
    • Inhale deeply
    • inhale the fresh mountain air
    • The patient has trouble inspiring
    • The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well
  7. adjective satellite being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
    elysian; divine.
    • her pies were simply divine
    • the divine Shakespeare
    • an elysian meal
    • an inspired performance

WordNet

In*spired" adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913