Word familyadjectiveinspirableinspirationalinspirativeinspiratoryinspiredinspiringnouninspirationinspirationisminspirationistinspiratorinspireradverbinspirationallyinspiringlyverbinspire
inspire• The movie was inspired by real events.• The country needs a leader who can inspire its citizens.• Mrs. Pianto was the kind of woman who inspiredkindness.• When I actually visited the university, it inspired me and made me want to go there.• The lecturetoday really inspired me to read more poetry.
inspire somebody to something• The coachinspired them tovictory.
not inspire confidence• As has already been suggested, their record does not inspire confidence.• If elected he would be almost seventy as he took office; some spectaculargaffes during the campaign did not inspire confidence.• Its record in economic crisis-management does not inspire confidence.• But, as Elinor was always telling him, Henry did not inspire confidence as a representative of the legalprofession.• As we shall see, conflicts of interest left unregulated do not inspire confidence upon which the financial markets depend.• A testban that could not inspire confidence would underminestability and might even provoke a new arms race.
Origininspire
(1300-1400)Frenchinspirer, from Latin, from spirare“to breathe”