Dynamic
daɪˈnæmɪk
adjective
characterized by constant change, activity, or progress
The word 'dynamic' is derived from the Greek word 'dynamikos', meaning powerful or forceful. It is often used to describe things that are full of energy and motion.
See how J. K. Rowling, Walt Whitman and 7 other authors use "dynamic", with its meaning, pronunciation and real book examples.
Examples from books
Midgets are, after all, diversions for silly or quiet times, and I was serious and excited about Bokonon’s theory of what he called “Dynamic Tension,” his sense of a priceless equilibrium between good and evil.
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
“You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life.
Frank Herbert
Dune
Either you present the people with a dynamic foreign policy, whatever your private plans are, or you make some sort of compromise with Sutt.” Mallow said, “All right, if I’ve failed the first, let’s try the second.
Isaac Asimov
Foundation 1 - Foundation
The whole process still seems so vivid, dynamic, and clear.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
In civilization, such as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
It almost seems as if a poetry with cosmic and dynamic features of magnitude and limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were never possible before.
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Certainly Peeta has thrown a wrench into our star-crossed lover dynamic.
Suzanne Collins
Hunger Games 1 - The Hunger Games
The same kind of looks that people give her when she walks through the worsted-wool desolation of the Westlake Corporate Park in her dynamic blue-and-orange Kourier gear.
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
They felt themselves as integral parts of a dynamic system held in delicately balanced order.
Frank Herbert
Children of Dune
That erected more dynamic intralinear tensions, he felt, and in just about every case left a message far more universal.
Joseph Heller
Catch-22