Synonyms 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.

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

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

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

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

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

   Antonyms:
   mental

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. organismnoun

   i am studying an animal. or i am studying an organism.

   Submitted by christinam.88369 on October 20, 2022  

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1. animalnoun

   Synonyms:
   creature, living being, created being

2. animalnoun

   Synonyms:
   BEAST, BRUTE, irrational creature, dumb creature, beast of the field, fowl of the air, denizen of the deep

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "animal":

   animals, livestock, animale, pet, beast, animal-sourced, animalistic, animales, zoo, animal-based, animal-derived, veterinary, wildlife, beasts, animali

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How to use animal in a sentence?

1. Nick Fox:

   We thought they must have been rhino poachers but the ax confirmed it, they use the rifle to shoot the animal and the ax to remove the horn.

2. Thomas Carlyle:

   Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

3. Lee Fuiman:

   The animal always found its way back. It's like he knew exactly where the hole was, i couldn't figure out how they would do that. How did they know where they were by the time they turned around?

4. Bob Goodlatte:

   The Secret Service is tasked with protecting the White House, but once again another incident makes the agency look more like it's partying in 'Animal House.'.

5. Michel Milinkovitch:

   We would like to follow the cracking on the skin of a baby African elephant to understand the dynamic of the process, are the cracks appearing everywhere or do they appear in a specific place and then propagate ? Does it take... weeks or does it take six months ? It's a new, beautiful example of how physical processes are involved in the development of animal forms and shapes.