Antonyms for animate
ˈæn əˌmeɪt; -mɪtan·i·mate

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1. animate

   Alive applies to all degrees of life, from that which shows one to be barely existing or existent as a living thing, as when we say he is just alive, to that which implies the very utmost of vitality and power, as in the words "he is all alive," "thoroughly alive." So the word quick, which began by signifying "having life," is now mostly applied to energy of life as shown in swiftness of action. Breathing is capable of like contrast. We say of a dying man, he is still breathing; or we speak of a breathing statue, or "breathing and sounding, beauteous battle," Tennyson Princess can. v, l. 155, where it means having, or seeming to have, full and vigorous breath, abundant life. Compare ACTIVE; ALERT; NIMBLE.

   Antonyms:
   dead, deceased, defunct, dispirited, dull, inanimate, lifeless, spiritless

   Synonyms:
   active, alert, alive, animated, breathing, brisk, existent, existing, live, lively, living, quick, subsisting, vivacious

   Preposition:
   Alive in every nerve; alive to every noble impulse; alive with fervor, hope, resolve; alive through all his being.

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1. animate

   Antonyms:
   dishearten, deter, cow, stifle, depress, damp, deaden, discourage

   Synonyms:
   enliven, inspirit, instigate, quicken, exhilarate, embolden, rouse, revivify, cheer, gladden, stir, prompt, incite, stimulate

Matched Categories

1. • Linguistics
   • Stimulate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. animateadjective

   belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

   "the word `dog' is animate"

   Antonyms:
   nonliving, inanimate, nonconscious, non-living

   Synonyms:
   sentient

2. animateadjective

   endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

   "we are animate beings"

   Antonyms:
   inanimate, nonliving, nonconscious, non-living

   Synonyms:
   sentient

3. sentient, animateverb

   endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

   "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence

   Antonyms:
   nonconscious, inanimate, nonliving, non-living

   Synonyms:
   sentient

4. inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exaltverb

   heighten or intensify

   "These paintings exalt the imagination"

   Antonyms:
   nonliving, inanimate, nonconscious, non-living

   Synonyms:
   revivify, tickle pink, quicken, glorify, laud, extol, enliven, beatify, cheer, vivify, animize, urge on, instigate, root on, liven up, renovate, invigorate, exhilarate, urge, inspire, exalt, proclaim, thrill, prompt, revolutionize, recreate, reinvigorate, animise, barrack, repair, exhort, inhale, reanimate, pep up, breathe in, liven, revolutionise, revive, inebriate

5. animize, animise, animateverb

   give lifelike qualities to

   "animated cartoons"

   Antonyms:
   nonliving, non-living, inanimate, nonconscious

   Synonyms:
   recreate, enliven, invigorate, quicken, liven, revive, revivify, animise, renovate, liven up, exalt, animize, reanimate, vivify, repair, inspire

6. enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animateverb

   make lively

   "let's liven up this room a bit"

   Antonyms:
   inanimate, nonconscious, nonliving, non-living

   Synonyms:
   recreate, enliven, invigorate, quicken, liven, revive, revivify, animise, renovate, liven up, exalt, animize, reanimate, vivify, reinvigorate, repair, inspire

7. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivifyverb

   give new life or energy to

   "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

   Antonyms:
   non-living, inanimate, nonliving, nonconscious

   Synonyms:
   speed up, furbish up, resuscitate, restitute, compensate, remediate, quicken, fix, amend, enliven, mend, cheer, vivify, animize, accelerate, refurbish, liven up, renovate, bushel, invigorate, speed, inspire, exalt, resurrect, play, hearten, restore, freshen up, rectify, touch on, recompense, recreate, animise, remedy, resort, repair, come to, reanimate, embolden, liven, revive, revivify, whet, doctor, indemnify

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1. animateverb

   Synonyms:
   vitalize, vivify, quicken, inspirit, stimulate, rouse

How to use animate in a sentence?

1. Brad Todd:

   That doesn't mean that a party can't win. some of those primaries will animate elements of their base, including some donors, more than the general elections.

2. John Adams:

   It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

3. Brad Todd:

   Some of those primaries will animate elements of their base, including some donors, more than the general elections.

4. Akhenaton:

   In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

5. Margaret Fuller:

   It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

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