animated

Etymology

adj

1. Full of life or spirit; lively; vigorous; spritely.
   an animated discussion
2. Endowed with life.
   Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive. 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection
3. Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that have the illusion of motion through the use of computer graphics or stop-action filming.
   an animated film

verb

1. simple past and past participle of animate