Definition of Animate

Verb

  • give new life or energy to
    "A hot soup will revive me"
    "This will renovate my spirits"
    "This treatment repaired my health"
  • make lively
    "let's liven up this room a bit"
    - liven up
  • give lifelike qualities to
    "animated cartoons"
    - animize - animise
  • heighten or intensify
    "These paintings exalt the imagination"

Adjective

  • endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
    "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
  • endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
    "we are animate beings"
  • belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
    "the word `dog' is animate"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

Word games points for the Animate

  • Scrabble® score of the animate (9)
  • Word Chums® score of the animate (12)
  • Words With Friends® score of the animate (11)

Unscramble animate

135 unscramble word found using the letters animate.
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