[Vocabulary] the sun made me feel alive and invigorated

[Oceanlike]

In the sentence, 'the sun made me feel alive and invigorated", I was surprised to find the word 'invigorated' classed under a verb albeit transitive.

I've always thought of this word as a describing word, an adjective. I do understand that 'invigorating' is an adjective.

Kindly help me to understand why 'invigorated' cannot be an adjective.

Thank you! :-D

 

[GoesStation]

It's an adjective in the quoted sentence. In "I feel x", only an adjective can replace x.

 

[Roman55]

Isn't it just the past participle of 'to invigorate' used adjectivally?

 

[SoothingDave]

Yes, it is.

 

[Raymott]

In the sentence, 'the sun made me feel alive and invigorated", I was surprised to find the word 'invigorated' classed under a verb albeit transitive.

And where did you find that?

 

[Oceanlike]

It was from an e-novel that I chanced upon, although I made changes to it. In the original sentence, it was rather long; the writer was describing the weather being somewhat chilly, something like that, followed by the descriptions 'alive and invigorated'. I omitted all the preceding words and simply put 'the sun made me'.

Oh you meant "invigorated" classed under a verb albeit transitive?
It's here: http://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/?ent=invigorated

 

[Raymott]

No, you found "invigorate" classed as a transitive verb. Since you are asking specifically about the part of speech, "invigorated" is not classed as a transitive verb, in your source. It's an inflection of the verb. If you change the ending, you can quite easily change the part of speech - here, to an adjective.

What do you mean by 'albeit transitive'?

 

[Oceanlike]

Okay, I understand now. Thank you.

I guess I have used it wrongly, 'albeit transitive'. I meant 'although transitive'.

 

[Matthew Wai]

What is 'a verb although transitive'? A transitive verb?

 

[PaulMatthews]

There are many verbs whose past-participle forms are identical to adjectives, "invigorated" being one of them. Dictionaries don't always list the adjective meaning, only listing the primary verbal meaning, which probably explains why you found "invigorated" only listed as a verb. In your example, it can only be an adjective since it's being used predicatively: it is ascribing the property of "invigorated" to the subject. As further proof of adjectivehood, unlike verbs it can be modified by "very": The sun made me feel very invigorated.

 

[Oceanlike]

What is 'a verb although transitive'? A transitive verb?

Yes, that was what I meant. I think I have worded them in a weird manner!