Antonyms for animal
ˈæn ə məlan·i·mal

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1. animal

   An animal is a sentient being, distinct from inanimate matter and from vegetable life on the one side and from mental and spiritual existence on the other. Thus man is properly classified as an animal. But because the animal life is the lowest and rudest part of his being and that which he shares with inferior creatures, to call any individual man an animal is to imply that the animal nature has undue supremacy, and so is deep condemnation or utter insult. The brute is the animal viewed as dull to all finer feeling; the beast is looked upon as a being of appetites. To call a man a brute is to imply that he is unfeeling and cruel; to call him a beast is to indicate that he is vilely sensual. We speak of the cruel father as a brute to his children; of the drunkard as making a beast of himself. So firmly are these figurative senses established that we now incline to avoid applying brute or beast to any creature, as a horse or dog, for which we have any affection; we prefer in such cases the word animal. Creature is a word of wide signification, including all the things that God has created, whether inanimate objects, plants, animals, angels, or men. The animals of a region are collectively called its fauna.

   Antonyms:
   angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable

   Synonyms:
   beast, brute, fauna, living creature, living organism, sentient being

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1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunaadjective

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

   Antonyms:
   mental

   Synonyms:
   zoology, puppet, fauna, tool, animate being, wight, wildcat, brute, beast, wolf, creature, savage

2. animal(a), carnal, fleshly, sensualadjective

   marked by the appetites and passions of the body

   "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"

   Antonyms:
   mental

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1. animaladjective

   Synonyms:
   brute, beastly, brutal, brutish, bestial, carnal, physical, fleshly

2. animalnoun

   Synonyms:
   being, creature, brute, beast

   Associated words:
   zoölogy, zoölogist, zoögraphy, zoöpathology, zoölatry, zoöphilist, zoöphily, zoötomy, zoiatrics, zoölogical, zoo, warren, taxidermy, taxidermist, veterinarian, veterinarianism, menagerie, pound, animalism, animalize, animalization

How to use animal in a sentence?

1. Mary Alloy:

   Kimberly LaRussa texted me one night and was like,' Hey, what would you think about putting pictures of the dogs on pizza boxes ?' and I just couldn't wait, we are all animal lovers here, so I got permission from the franchise to do it and immediately got to work.

2. Freedman Fowler:

   We think that the crests of dinosaurs were visual signals so that they could recognize members of their own species, and also tell whether the animal was mature or not.

3. Tracey Goldstein:

   Animal health and human health and environmental health are so linked, if one deteriorates then the rest do, too.

4. Thomas Witte:

   Wherever you have that interface between human population and animal population, you've got to do something to control the situation; that is for animal welfare as much as it is for human convenience.

5. Fran Lebowitz:

   My favorite animal is steak.

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