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imbued

imbued

6.3
Filled with a strong feeling or idea
  • adjective
  • /ɪmˈbjuːd/
translation icon : imbuido
  • Her speech was imbued with a sense of optimism that inspired everyone in the room.

Well, they are imbued with whiteness, which has been taught to them, hasn't it?

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Examples

  • House codes are imbued with meaning and history.

  • He's deeply imbued with a sense of the sacred, not only in its presence but also in its loss.

  • And I think God has imbued laws within his reality that can use suffering for good.

  • Life, I mean, you know, life is imbued with emotions.

  • And people imbued with that belief are not given to great tolerance and not given to exchange and cooperation.

  • Roles are filled with close allies, mainly military men imbued with a strong sense of order, virtue and purpose.

  • This is one of the many layers of irony that the artists have imbued within this rich, OH so rich text.

  • The object is nameable, storable and preservable, imbued with the power and authority, perhaps even aura, of both place and selection.

  • The artist's work is imbued with a passion for nature that resonates with viewers.

  • He walked into the old library, which was imbued with the scent of aged books.

Synonyms

replete
vsimbued
16 6.6

Filled with many things, for example ideas or objects

is deeply filled throughout by a particular quality or feeling

Antonyms

devoid
  • Formal
52 5.5

Completely without something that is usual or expected

How Filled

saturated
1 3.9
imbued
6.3

Surface Forms

imbued positive

Morphology

imbued = imbue (transparent) = imbue + ed

This is a regular participial adjective formed from the verb 'imbue', and the meaning follows directly from that base.

Etymology

Imbued comes from the old Latin word imbuere, which meant 'to soak in' or 'to dye', like dipping cloth into color so the color goes deep inside. So, when something is imbued with an idea or feeling, it is 'soaked' or filled with that quality.