moving

moving

modif.

1. In motion

   going, changing, progressing, advancing, shifting, evolving, withdrawing, rising, going down, descending, ascending, getting up, traveling, on the track, journeying, on the march, moving up, starting, proceeding, traversing, flying, climbing, up-tempo*, on the jump*, on the wing*, under sail*, going great guns*.

   Antonyms unchanging, unmoving, let be.

2. Arousing the emotions

   touching, affecting, poignant, stirring, rousing, arousing, inspiring, heart-rending, pathetic, heartbreaking, pitiful, emotional, emotive, telling, eloquent, persuasive, effective, impressive, inspirational, impelling, motivating, soul-stirring, heart-swelling, thrilling; see also passionate 2, pitiful 1.

moving implies a general arousing or stirring of the emotions or feelings, sometimes, specif., of pathos her moving plea for help; poignant is applied to that which is sharply painful to the feelings the poignant cry of a lost child; affecting applies to that which stirs the emotions, as to tears the affecting scene of their reunion; touching is used of that which arouses tender feelings, as of sympathy, gratitude, etc. a touching little gift; pathetic applies to that which arouses pity, compassion, or sympathetic sorrow, or pity mingled with contempt the pathetic sight of homeless children, a pathetic attempt at wit