inspiring

comparative more inspiring · superlative most inspiring

1. Providing inspiration; encouraging; stimulating.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of inspire

plural inspirings

1. countableuncountableinspiration

   From the severity of his father to the sweet intellectual inspirings of his wife a sadness seems ever to dwell upon his career. It was not that he was unfortunate. Few men have achieved greater success in life than John Stuart Mill.

   1874, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art