'animate' definitions:
Definition of 'animate'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate" [ant: inanimate]
adjective
Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" [ant: inanimate, non-living, nonliving]
adjective
Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: sentient, animate] [ant: insensate, insentient]
verb
Heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt]
verb
verb
Make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate] [ant: blunt, deaden]
verb
Synonyms of 'animate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboveground,
- activate,
- activated,
- active,
- actuate,
- alert,
- alive,
- alive and kicking,
- among the living,
- animated,
- arouse,
- biological,
- biotic,
- boost,
- brace,
- brace up,
- breathe life into,
- breathing,
- brighten,
- bring into being,
- bring into existence,
- bring to life,
- brisk,
- brisken,
- buck up,
- buoy up,
- call into being,
- call into existence,
- cant,
- capable of life,
- cheer,
- chirk up,
- common gender,
- compel,
- conceive,
- conscious,
- drive,
- drive on,
- dynamic,
- dynamize,
- electrify,
- embolden,
- embue,
- encourage,
- endow with life,
- endowed with life,
- energize,
- energized,
- enliven,
- enlivened,
- exalt,
- excite,
- exhilarate,
- existent,
- feminine,
- fillip,
- fire,
- fire up,
- force,
- fortify,
- forward,
- foster,
- fresh up,
- freshen,
- freshen up,
- galvanize,
- gay,
- gender,
- give a lift,
- give an impetus,
- give birth,
- give life to,
- give momentum,
- gladden,
- goad,
- hearten,
- imbue,
- impel,
- in the flesh,
- inanimate,
- incite,
- infect,
- inflame,
- inform,
- infuse,
- infuse life into,
- inject,
- inoculate,
- inspire,
- inspirit,
- inspirited,
- instinct with life,
- invigorate,
- jazz up,
- keen,
- kindle,
- live,
- lively,
- liven,
- living,
- long-lived,
- masculine,
- motivate,
- move,
- move to action,
- moving,
- nerve,
- neuter,
- organic,
- organized,
- pep up,
- perk up,
- physiological,
- pick up,
- pique,
- power,
- promote,
- propel,
- provoke,
- put in motion,
- quick,
- quicken,
- reanimate,
- recreate,
- refresh,
- refreshen,
- regale,
- reinforce,
- reinvigorate,
- rejoice,
- rejoice the heart,
- renew,
- resuscitate,
- revitalize,
- revive,
- revivify,
- rouse,
- set agoing,
- set going,
- set in motion,
- set up,
- sharpen,
- snap up,
- spark,
- spirit,
- spirit up,
- spirited,
- sprightly,
- spur on,
- steel,
- stimulate,
- stir,
- strengthen,
- tenacious of life,
- thrust,
- very much alive,
- viable,
- vital,
- vitalize,
- vivacious,
- vivified,
- vivify,
- warm,
- whet,
- whip on,
- zip up,
- zoetic
Words containing 'animate'
- anim,
- animal,
- animalism,
- animality,
- animalization,
- animalize,
- animate being,
- animated,
- animatedly,
- animateness,
- animating,
- animation,
- animator,
- anime,
- animism,
- animize,
- Animal charcoal,
- Animal flower,
- Animal force,
- Animal heat,
- Animal kingdom,
- Animal magnetism,
- Animal mechanics,
- Animal spirits,
- Animal temperature,
- Animated picture,
- Coral animal,
- Dumb animal,
- Gum animal,
- Moss animal,
- Pack animal,
- Testaceous animals,
- Unclean animals,
- Wheel animal,
- animal black,
- animal communication,
- animal disease,
- animal fancier,
- animal fat,
- animal fiber,
- animal fibre,
- animal foot,
- animal glue,
- animal group,
- animal husbandry,
- animal leg,
- animal material,
- animal nature,
- animal oil,
- animal order,
- animal pigment,
- animal product,
- animal psychology,
- animal scientist,
- animal skin,
- animal starch,
- animal stuffer,
- animal tissue,
- animal toxin,
- animal trainer,
- animal virus,
- animal worship,
- animate thing,
- animated cartoon,
- animated oat,
- caprine animal,
- domestic animal,
- domesticated animal,
- draft animal,
- farm animal,
- fictional animal,
- gum anime,
- marine animal,
- predatory animal,
- range animal,
- sea animal,
- suspended animation,
- work animal,
- Vegeto-animal,
- animal-worship,
- Gum animi or anim'e,
- The Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed