DYNAMIC
Dictionary entry overview: What does dynamic mean?
• DYNAMIC (noun)
The noun DYNAMIC has 1 sense:
1. an efficient incentive
Familiarity information: DYNAMIC used as a noun is very rare.
• DYNAMIC (adjective)
The adjective DYNAMIC has 3 senses:
1. characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
2. of or relating to dynamics
3. expressing action rather than a state of being; used of verbs (e.g. 'to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. 'running' in 'running water')
Familiarity information: DYNAMIC used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• DYNAMIC (noun)
Meaning:
An efficient incentive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting goals
Synonyms:
dynamic; moral force
Context example:
they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches
Hypernyms ("dynamic" is a kind of...):
incentive; inducement; motivator (a positive motivational influence)
• DYNAMIC (adjective)
Meaning:
Characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
Synonyms:
dynamic; dynamical
Context examples:
a dynamic market / a dynamic speaker / the dynamic president of the firm
Similar:
slashing (as if striking with slashing blows)
self-propelled; self-propelling (moved forward by its own force or momentum)
propellant; propellent; propelling; propulsive (tending to or capable of propelling)
projectile (impelling or impelled forward)
high-energy; high-octane; high-power; high-powered; high-voltage (vigorously energetic or forceful)
energising; energizing; kinetic (supplying motive force)
driving; impulsive (having the power of driving or impelling)
changing; ever-changing (marked by continuous change or effective action)
can-do (marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done)
Also:
energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)
Antonym:
undynamic (characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness)
Meaning:
Of or relating to dynamics
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Pertainym:
dynamics (the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies)
Meaning:
Expressing action rather than a state of being; used of verbs (e.g. 'to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. 'running' in 'running water')
Synonyms:
dynamic; active
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics or morphology))
