Synonyms 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.

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

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

   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

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

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

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1. animateadjective

   belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

   "the word `dog' is animate"

   Synonyms:
   sentient

   Antonyms:
   nonliving, inanimate, nonconscious, non-living

2. animateadjective

   endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

   "we are animate beings"

   Synonyms:
   sentient

   Antonyms:
   inanimate, nonliving, nonconscious, non-living

3. sentient, animateverb

   endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

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

   Synonyms:
   sentient

   Antonyms:
   nonconscious, inanimate, nonliving, non-living

4. inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exaltverb

   heighten or intensify

   "These paintings exalt the imagination"

   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

   Antonyms:
   nonliving, inanimate, nonconscious, non-living

5. animize, animise, animateverb

   give lifelike qualities to

   "animated cartoons"

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

   Antonyms:
   nonliving, non-living, inanimate, nonconscious

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

   make lively

   "let's liven up this room a bit"

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

   Antonyms:
   inanimate, nonconscious, nonliving, non-living

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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   non-living, inanimate, nonliving, nonconscious

Matched Categories

1. • Linguistics
   • Stimulate

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1. animateverb

   Synonyms:
   quicken, inform, make alive, give life to, vivify

2. animateverb

   Synonyms:
   invigorate, fortify, revive, give vigor or energy to

3. animateverb

   Synonyms:
   stimulate, waken, rouse, whet, incite, impel, excite, fire, heat, urge, provoke, warm, goad, kindle, prompt, work up, set on

4. animateverb

   Synonyms:
   encourage, inspire, inspirit, embolden, enhearten, hearten, exhilarate, gladden, elate, elevate, flush, ERECT

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1. animateverb

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "animate":

   encourage, liven

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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. Brian Cathcart:

   They animate and direct the mob day by day and hour by hour.

3. 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.

4. Amos Bronson Alcott:

   Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

5. Brian Cathcart:

   What they may have lost in print circulation they have made up for in social media clout and influence over politicians, they animate and direct the mob day by day and hour by hour.