inspire
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
heighten or intensify
These paintings exalt the imagination
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- vivification derivation
- exaltation derivation
Sense 2 verb
supply the inspiration for
The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work
Types & categories
- occasion hypernym
Related & opposite
- inspiration derivation
Sense 3 verb
serve as the inciting cause of
She prompted me to call my relatives
Types & categories
- cause hypernym
Related & opposite
- instigation derivation
- prompting derivation
- instigation derivation
- initiator derivation
Sense 4 verb
spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- urging derivation
- exhortation derivation
- exhortation derivation
- shouting derivation
- cheerer derivation
- pressing derivation
- exhortative derivation
Sense 5 verb
fill with revolutionary ideas
Types & categories
- indoctrinate hypernym
Related & opposite
- revolution derivation
- inspirer derivation
Sense 6 verb
draw in (air)
Inhale deeply
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- exhale antonym
- inhalation derivation
- respirator derivation
- inhalant derivation
- inhalant derivation
- inspiratory derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | vivification |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | exaltation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | stimulate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | encourage |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inspiration |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | occasion |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | instigation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | prompting |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | instigation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | initiator |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | cause |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | urging |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | shouting |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheerer |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressing |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortative |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | encourage |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | cheerlead |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | revolution |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | inspirer |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | indoctrinate |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | exhale |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhalation |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | respirator |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhalant |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | inhalant |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | inspiratory |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | breathe |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | aspirate |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | sniffle |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | snuffle |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | snuff |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | puff |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | huff |