Overview of verb animate

The verb animate has 4 senses

• inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt -- (heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination")


• animize, animise, animate -- (give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons")


• enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate -- (make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit")


• animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify -- (give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health")

Overview of adj animate

The adj animate has 3 senses

• animate -- (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")


• sentient, animate -- (endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence)