Pronunciations (4)
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/ɪnˈspaɪɹd/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/ɪnˈspaɪəd/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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ɪn.ˈspaɪɹd
Pronunciation notes
- US
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ɪn.ˈspaɪəd
Pronunciation notes
- GB
Adjective
Having excellence through inspiration.
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The actor's inspired performance of Hamlet's soliloquy left the audience dumbfounded.
New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
Filled with inspiration or motivated.
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The artist was inspired to paint a true masterpiece.
He was inspired to learn to fly.
Infused with power or knowledge granted from a supernatural entity; possessing inspiration from the divine.
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Korean shamans are thought to be capable of inspired speech, in which they convey the words of the gods.
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The point which I wish to establish is this, that the whole prediction of the future establishment of the religion of the Gospel was an inspired prediction, a prediction answerable to the highest test of a supernatural prescience.
Drawn into the lungs; inhaled.
Usage- of air
Inflated.
Usage- Obsolete
Adjective
being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
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her pies were simply divine
the divine Shakespeare
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an elysian meal
an inspired performance