Definition for Animate:

• Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.

Synonyms for Animate:

• adj.

  •alive (adjective)
  • living,
  • live,
  • moving,
  • mortal,
  • zoetic,
  • viable.
  •enthusiastic (adjective)
  • keen.
  •live (adjective)
  • incarnate.
  •lively (adjective)
  • activated,
  • Energized,
  • dynamic,
  • alert,
  • active.

• n.

  •
  • intrigue,
  • interest,
  • dazzle,
  • attract.
  •
  • vitalize.
  •
  • happy,
  • brighten.
  •
  • uplift,
  • lift,
  • flush.
  •
  • help.
  •
  • action.
  •animate (noun)
  • liven up,
  • sentient,
  • animise,
  • exalt,
  • sensate,
  • recreate,
  • animize,
  • renovate,
  • repair.

• v.

  •bring to life (verb)
  • impel,
  • make alive,
  • activate,
  • gladden,
  • urge,
  • inform,
  • embolden,
  • instigate,
  • move.
  •excite (verb)
  • inflame,
  • disturb,
  • disquiet.
  •increasing (verb)
  • growing.
  •invigorate (verb)
  • power,
  • agitate.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Smarten,
  • weaken,
  • elate,
  • awaken.
  •
  • motivate,
  • buoy.
  •
  • enkindle.
  •
  • animated.
  •alive
  • surviving,
  • life,
  • immortal.
  •cheer
  • give a lift,
  • brace up.
  •energize
  • trigger,
  • switch on,
  • jazz up,
  • innervate.
  •excite
  • touch off.
  •infuse
  • infuse.
  •light
  • light up.
  •revitalize
  • revitalize.
  •work up
  • work up.

Paraphrases for Animate:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    animated.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    facilitated, heated.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    inspire.
  • Verb, base form
    encourage, stimulate, inspire, galvanize, motivate, moderate.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    lively.

Antonyms for Animate:

• adj.

  • alive
    discouraged, dull, shy, dead, quiet, inactive, spiritless.
  • all
    inanimate.
  • lively
    lethargic.
  • Other antonyms:
    lackadaisical, impassive, non-living, sleepy, stillborn, phlegmatic, indolent, limp, languid, vapid, unambitious, lapsed, tired, apathetic, fading, Languishing, barren, extinct, inert, wiped out, ghostlike, languorous, sluggish, stolid, lost, tedious, expired, vanished, leaden, boring, desert, torpid, ghostly, terminated, listless, finished, dispirited, lazy, weary.

• v.

  • bring to life
    kill, deaden, slow, dissuade, bore, tire, stop, calm, delay, deter, suppress, depress, dishearten, discourage, halt, disenchant.

Homophones for Animate:

• amniota, amniote, annuity, anoint, ante, amide, ammonoid, ant, ammonite, amanita, anomiidae, and how, antedate, anti, animated, anhimidae, annamite, ammoniated, aeneid, anonymity, awned, ammoniate, amended, Anne Hathaway, amenity, antido, ament, amity, annotate, amount, ammodytidae, amentia, amend, animated oat, anode, aunty, antidote, aunt, amati, anatidae, annoyed, amiidae, auntie.

Hypernym for Animate:

• v.

  • emotion
    encourage.

Hyponym for Animate:

• v.

  • emotion
    excite, shake up, stir, stimulate, shake.