Adjective: energetic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more energetic |
| Superlative | most energetic |
Sample Sentences
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Cosmic rays are energetic particles from outer space.
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energetic laws
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Now lift the inverted jar so that the air can get at the outside of the “porous cup” and instantly the energetic illuminating gas which is now inside the “porous cup” begins to come out, and the water rises in the glass tube to take its place. [1898, Home Study for Electrical Workers, page 36:]
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Those kids are so energetic: they want to run around playing all day.
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They are even now insulted with all the arguments which have been used in favor of energetic governments, ever since the days of Pharaoh: but every one knew, long before our revolution, that an energetic government could be supported […] [1801, Abraham Bishop, An Oration on the Extent and Power of Political Delusion, page 38:]
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At these energetic sounds, the sun hid himself beneath a gloomy cloud; and the waters of two little lakes, that were naturally clearer than crystal, became of a colour like blood. [1816, William Beckford, Vathek, Oxford, published 2013, page 82:]
Adjectives inflected like energetic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From New Latin energeticus (16th c.), or its source, Ancient Greek ἐνεργητικός (energētikós), from ἐνεργέω (energéō, “to be active”), from ἐνεργός (energós, “active”). By surface analysis, energy + -etic.
Verbs referencing "energetic"
Finnish Adjectives
energeettinen.