Animate Very Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Animate has 9 different meanings across 2 categories:

Definitions

Verb

heighten or intensify

"These paintings exalt the imagination"

inspire animate invigorate enliven exalt

give lifelike qualities to

"animated cartoons"

animize animise animate

make lively

"let's liven up this room a bit"

enliven liven liven up invigorate animate

give new life or energy to

"A hot soup will revive me"

"This will renovate my spirits"

"This treatment repaired my health"

animate recreate reanimate revive renovate repair quicken vivify revivify

To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.

"The magician waved his wand and seemed to animate the paper dragon, making it flap its wings across the table."

Adjective

belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

"the word `dog' is animate"

animate

endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

"we are animate beings"

animate

endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"

sentient animate

That which lives.

"The ancient statue seemed to come alive when the first rays of sunlight touched its face, making it feel like a truly animate being."

Example Sentences

"These paintings exalt the imagination" verb

"animated cartoons" verb

"let's liven up this room a bit" verb

"A hot soup will revive me" verb

"This will renovate my spirits" verb

"This treatment repaired my health" verb

"the word `dog' is animate" adjective

"we are animate beings" adjective

"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage" adjective