kinetic
adjEtymology
From Ancient Greek κινητικός (kinētikós, “puts in motion”), from κινέω (kinéō, “I move, put in motion”).
- derived from κινητικός
Definitions
Relating to motion.
Relating to kinesis or motor function.
Relating to the movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus.
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Relating to the force driving life forward.
Relating to active warfare or the use of lethal force.^([W])
Frantic
Frantic; busy.
- Sorry it took so long; it's been kind of kinetic around here.
- Their enthusiasm and group cohesion helped when things got kinetic.
The neighborhood
- synonymactive
- synonymanimated
- synonymdynamic
- synonymvigorous
- antonymstatic
- antonymlazy
- antonymlogic
- antonymsluggish
- neighborcinema
- neighborkinesis
- neighborkinesthetic
Derived
adipokinetic, aerokinetic, akinetic, amphikinetic, angiokinetic, antikinetic, arthrokinetic, autokinetic, biokinetic, blastokinetic, bradykinetic, cardiokinetic, chemokinetic, cholecystokinetic, cholekinetic, cryokinetic, cytokinetic, diakinetic, dikinetic, dyskinetic, echokinetic, electrokinetic, enterokinetic, ferrokinetic, gametokinetic, gastrokinetic, glossokinetic, gyrokinetic, haptokinetic, holokinetic, homokinetic, hydrokinetic, hyperkinetic, hypokinetic, hysterokinetic, immunokinetic, interkinetic, isokinetic, karyokinetic, kennetic · +53 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for kinetic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA