Defenition of the word animate
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Defenition of the word animate
- To impart motion or the appearance of motion to (e.g. a cartoon).
- endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"; "living creatures"
- (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
- relating to animal life as distinct from plant life; "animate life"
- give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"
- give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons"
- make lively or spirited
- make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
- heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
- endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
- give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
- make lively; "let''s liven up this room a bit"
- endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God''s stage"- T.E.Lawrence
- endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
- belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog'' is animate"
- give new life or energy to
- make lively
- give lifelike qualities to
- heighten or intensify
- endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
- endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
- belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
Synonyms for the word animate
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- alive
- animise
- animize
- breathing
- bring to life
- conscious
- enliven
- exalt
- flesh and blood
- inspire
- invigorate
- live
- liven
- liven up
- living
- quicken
- reanimate
- recreate
- renovate
- repair
- revive
- revivify
- rouse
- sentient
- stimulate
- stir
- vivify
Similar words in the animate
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- animate
- animated
- animatedly
- animates
- sensate
- vital
Hyponyms for the word animate
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- encourage
- ginger up
- inspirit
- jazz up
- juice up
- pep up
- spirit
- spirit up
Hypernyms for the word animate
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- alter
- arouse
- brace
- change
- energise
- energize
- excite
- modify
- perk up
- shake
- shake up
- stimulate
- stir
Antonyms for the word animate
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- blunt
- dead
- deaden
- inanimate
- insensate
- insentient
- nonliving
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