Animate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To give life to; fill with life.
  • v. To impart interest or zest to; enliven: "The party was animated by all kinds of men and women” ( René Dubos).
  • v. To fill with spirit, courage, or resolution; encourage. See Synonyms at encourage.
  • v. To inspire to action; prompt.
  • v. To impart motion or activity to.
  • v. To make, design, or produce (a cartoon, for example) so as to create the illusion of motion.
  • adj. Possessing life; living. See Synonyms at living.
  • adj. Of or relating to animal life as distinct from plant life.
  • adj. Belonging to the class of nouns that stand for living things: The word dog is animate; the word car is inanimate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. That which lives.
  • adj. Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
  • adj. Dynamic, energetic.
  • adj. Having a referent that includes a human or animal.
  • adj. Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.
  • v. To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken.
  • v. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of.
  • v. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
  • adj. Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To give natural life to; quicken; make alive: as, the soul animates the body.
  • To affect with an appearance of life; inspire or actuate as if with life; bring into action or movement.
  • To move or actuate the mind of; incite to mental action; prompt.
  • To give spirit or vigor to; infuse courage, joy, or other enlivening passion into; stimulate: as, to animate dispirited troops.
  • Synonyms To vivify. To revive, invigorate. To enliven, stimulate, inspirit, exhilarate, cheer, gladden, impel, urge on, prompt, incite.
  • To become enlivened or exhilarated; rouse one's self.
  • Alive; possessing animal life: as, “creatures animate,”
  • Having the appearance of life; resembling that which is alive; lively.
  • Pertaining to living things: as, “animate diseases,” Kirby and Spence, Entomol.
  • In grammar, referring to living things as indicated by a difference of form in the designating word: said of gender in some languages. See the quotation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
  • adj. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  • adj. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
  • v. give new life or energy to
  • v. make lively
  • v. give lifelike qualities to
  • v. heighten or intensify
  • Equivalent
    sensate   
    Verb Form
    animated    animates    animating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    energise    brace    arouse    perk up    stimulate    energize    change    modify    alter   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cheer    quicken    gladden    stimulate    incite    rouse    instigate    urge    exhilarate    inspirit   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    inanimate   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    lively    intelligent    vivid    eager    gay    pathetic