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animate - Dictionary definition and meaning for animate

ANIMATE

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  • (verb) give new life or energy to

    "A hot soup will revive me", "This will renovate my spirits", "This treatment repaired my health"

    synonyms : quicken , reanimate , recreate , renovate , repair , revive , revivify , vivify
  • (verb) make lively

    "let's liven up this room a bit"

    synonyms : enliven , invigorate , liven , liven up
  • (verb) give lifelike qualities to

    "animated cartoons"

    synonyms : animise , animize
  • (verb) heighten or intensify

    "These paintings exalt the imagination"

    synonyms : enliven , exalt , inspire , invigorate
  • (adj.) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

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

    synonyms : sentient
  • (adj.) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

    "we are animate beings"

  • (adj.) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

    "the word `dog' is animate"

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

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