dynamic

/daɪˈnæmɪk/

/daɪˈnæmɪk/

Other forms: dynamics

If a person, place, or thing is energetic and active, then it's dynamic. When things are dynamic, there's a lot going on.

Even the most exciting rural town won't be as dynamic as a big city: there are just more things happening in a city. Someone with a dynamic personality is probably funny, loud, and excitable; a quiet, mousy person isn't dynamic. You can also talk about the dynamic aspect of music, which has to do with how the music uses dynamics, which means "changes in volume." When things are dynamic, changes and energy are in the air.

Definitions of dynamic

1. adjective

   characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
   “a dynamic market”

   “a dynamic speaker”

   “the dynamic president of the firm”

   synonyms: dynamical

   can-do

   marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done

   changing, ever-changing

   marked by continuous change or effective action

   driving, impulsive

   having the power of driving or impelling

   energising, energizing, kinetic

   supplying motive force

   high-energy, high-octane, high-power, high-powered, high-voltage

   very energetic, powerful, or exciting

   projectile

   impelling or impelled forward

   propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive

   tending to or capable of propelling

   self-propelled, self-propelling

   moved forward by its own force or momentum

   slashing

   as if striking with slashing blows

   energetic

   possessing or exerting or displaying energy

   antonyms:

   undynamic

   characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness

   backward

   having made less than normal progress

   moribund, stagnant

   not growing or changing; without force or vitality
2. adjective

   of or relating to dynamics
3. noun

   an efficient incentive
   “they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches”

   synonyms: moral force

   type of:

   incentive, inducement, motivator

   a positive motivational influence
4. adjective

   (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being
   synonyms: active