animate

Verb

Verb Forms: animated, animating, animates

• To bring to life; to give inspiration or vigor to.
• heighten or intensify
• give lifelike qualities to
  • "animated cartoons"
• make lively
• give new life or energy to
• To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
• To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.

Adjective

• belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
  • "the word `dog' is animate"
• endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
  • "we are animate beings"
• endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; - T.E.Lawrence

Adj

• That lives.
• Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
• Dynamic, energetic.
• having a referent that is considered alive (this generally includes humans, animals and deities, sometimes also plants, spirits, etc.)
• Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.

Examples

• A well-placed ’J’ can ANIMATE an entire rack of dull letters.
• If we animate the model, we can see the complexity of the action.
• Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate.
• She is an engaging and animate speaker.

Synonyms

animise, animize, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate, liven, liven up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, sentient, vivify, above ground, abuzz, active, actuate, afoot, agile, airy, alive, alive and kicking, alive and well, ambulatory, animate, animated, arouse, astir, awaken, beghast, bright, brighten, brisk, busy, busy as a bee, buxom, buzzing, cheer, cursory, diligent, drive, driven, driving, dynamic, eager, effervescent, electrify, energetic, energize, enflame, enkindle, enthrill, enthuse, enthusiastic, exagitate, excite, exhilarate, expeditious, exsuscitate, extant, fillip, fire, fire the blood, fire up, force, frisky, galvanize, gay, get going, gin up, ginger, ginger up, glowing, happy, hearty, ignite, impel, impetuous, in motion, industrious, inflame, inspirit, intoxicate, jazz, keen, kicking, kindle, kinetic, live, lively, livesome, living, merry, mobile, motile, motivate, motivated, motive, movable, moving, nimble, on the move, on the wing, peppy, perk up, perky, press, propel, put in motion, quick, restive, rouse, send, set fire to, set in motion, set on fire, sharpen, snappy, spice, spice up, spirited, sprightly, sprunt, spry, still with us, stimulate, stir the blood, surviving, suscitate, thrill, undeceased, under sail, unstill, vagile, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vitalic, vitalise, vivacious, vivid, wake, warm the blood, whet, wind up, work up, yerk, zealous, zestful, zippy

Antonyms

deaden, inanimate, insentient, accelerate, active, alive, continue, go, halt, in action, in motion, lifeless, movable, move, proceed, quiescent, sedentary, sessile, set in motion, static, stay, stop

Related Words

animation, animatrice, exanimate

Anagrams of animate