Animate
WordNet
adjective
(1) Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
"The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
(2) Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
"We are animate beings"
(3) Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
"The word `dog' is animate"
verb
(4) Give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
"This treatment repaired my health"
(5) Make lively
"Let's liven up this room a bit"
(6) Give lifelike qualities to
"Animated cartoons"
(7) Heighten or intensify
"These paintings exalt the imagination"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
< , pp. < ; see anima.
Adjective
- That which lives.
- Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
- Dynamic, energetic.
- She is an engaging and animate speaker.
- having at least one human or animal referent or inflected to agree with a term that has such a referent
Synonyms
alive, live, living active, dynamic, energetic
Antonyms
inanimate fixed, immobile, static, stationary, still static inanimate
Verb
- To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
- If we animate the model, we can see the complexity of the action.