animate meaning and definition

ANIMATE verb

Definition of animate (verb)

1. heighten or intensify
   • "These paintings exalt the imagination"
   • synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate
2. give lifelike qualities to
   • "animated cartoons"
   • synonyms: animise, animize
3. make lively
   • "let's liven up this room a bit"
   • synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up
   • antonym: blunt
4. 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

ANIMATE adjective

Definition of animate (adjective)

1. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
   • "the word `dog' is animate"
   • antonym: inanimate
2. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
   • "we are animate beings"
   • antonym: inanimate
3. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
   • "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
   • synonyms: sentient
   • antonym: insensate