Animate

Definition: Animate

Animate

Adjective

1. (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate".

2. Relating to animal life as distinct from plant life; "animate life".

3. Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings".

4. Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence.

Verb

1. Heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination".

2. Give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons".

3. Make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit".

4. Make lively or spirited.

5. Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "animate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

ANIMATE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Animate

Cheerfulness

Cheer, enliven, elate, exhilarate, gladden, inspirit, animate, raise the spirits, inspire; perk up; put in good humor; cheer the heart, rejoice the heart; delight; (give pleasure).

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Motive

Stimulate; (excite); spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse; animate, incite, foment, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate;act upon, work upon, operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder, clap on the back, clap on the shoulder.

Crosswords: Animate

I'm appropriately animate for a human being in the context in which I exist (Wild Man Blues; writing credit: Richard Ellmann; Julian Mitchell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• An introduction to the philosophy of animate nature (reference)

• Animate (reference)

• Animate Form (reference)

• Animate Illusions Explorations of Narrative Structure (reference)

• Animate Objects (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• LightWave Animate One (reference)

• LightWave Animate Two (reference)

• Six Hours of Christmas Animate (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

He implored Love to animate her, and that made Chowder

They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "animate": animate a cartoon ♦ animate being ♦ animate the conversation. Additional references.

Albanian

nxis (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), i jap jetë (vitalize, vivify), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), gjallëroj (enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, revive, rouse, set about, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, sting, stir, tense, vitalize, vivify, warm up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفعم بالحيوية (active, animated, brisk, dynamic, energetic, full of energy, full of life, full of vigor, lively, lusty, peppy, spirited, sprightly, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zippy), ‏نفخ الحياة, ‏نشط (activate, active, bestir oneself, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, reactivate, rekindle, revive, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), ‏حي (active, alive, animated, block, district, existent, graphic, graphical, lifelike, live, lively, living, neighborhood, neighbourhood, nod, part, pictorial, picturesque, quarter, reanimate, recall, regenerate, section, vivid, ward), ‏جعله حيويا, ‏شجع (cheer, comfort, countenance, cultivate, embolden, encourage, feed, fortify, foster, hearten, inspirit, instigation, invite, nerve, promote, root, spur, support), ‏دفع إلى العمل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съживявам (awake, enliven, galvanize, pull round, raise, rally, reanimate, regenerate, renovate, resurrect, resuscitate, revive, revivify, wake), стимулирам (brace, excite, exhilarate, goad, innervate, irritate, quicken, stimulate, urge), вдъхновявам (inbreathe, set up, turn on), оживен (active, alive, animated, brisk, bustling, crisp, effervescent, heated, hilarious, lively, racy, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, stirring, thriving, vivacious), ободрявам (brighten, bring round, buck up, cheer up, comfort, elevate, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, invigorate, key up, lighten, liven up, nerve, pull round, reanimate, refresh, set up, spirit, stir up trouble, uplift), одушевявам (inspirit, spiritualize), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy). (various references)

Chinese 

赋予�"�命. (various references)

Czech

animovat, oživit (brighten up, enliven, inspirit, jazz, liven, quicken, reanimate, recapture, regenerate, rejuvenate, retrieve, revive, spirit, vitalize, vivify). (various references)

Dutch

verlevendigen (abet, encourage, fan, fire, inspire, stimulate, stir up, urge), bezielen (inspire). (various references)

Esperanto

animi. (various references)

Farsi 

تحریک وتشجیع کردن , سرزنده (Alive, Live, Lively, Snappy, Spirituous, Sprightly, Vivacious, Yare), زندگی بخشیدن (Enliven), جاندار, جان دادن به (Quicken), روح دادن (Act, Enliven, Inanimate, Spirit), باروح (Airy, Allegro, Brisk, Fresh, Gaily, Lively, Peppery, Racy, Snappy, Spunky). (various references)

Finnish

vilkastuttaa (enliven, make lively, revive), innostaa (enliven, inspire), elvyttää (enliven, quicken, restore, resuscitate, revive, stimulate), elävöittää (inspire). (various references)

French

animer, vivifier. (various references)

German

beleben (brighten, brighten up, bring to life, buoy up, enliven, exhilarate, inspirit, invigorate, liven, liven up, revive, stimulate, to animate, to enliven, to freshen, to inspirit, to revive, to staminate, variegate, vitalize, vivify). (various references)

Greek 

εμψυχώνω (encourage, reanimate). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ל�"יב (enthuse, excite, kindle, stir up, whip up, work up), ל�"חיות (enliven, freshen, liven, quicken, refresh, resuscitate, revive, vitalize), ל�"� פיש, ל� פש (enliven), חי (active, alive, live, living, quick). (various references)

Hungarian

élettel teli (alive, full of life, vital), élő (alive, animated, have life, living, living being). (various references)

Indonesian

menyemarakkan, mengobarkan (fan flames, fire something up, inspire). (various references)

Irish

beoigh. (various references)

Italian

animare (become animated, excite, give life to, inspirit, jazz, liven, pep up, vivify, wake, warm). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

群�"� (all animate creation, many people), �"�者 (animate nature, living things), 在る　 (to be animate, to live), 居る　 (to be, to be animate, to exist), 居る (to be, to be animate, to exist). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうじゃ (animate nature, convent, living things, monastery, prosperous person, temple), ぐ�"せい (all animate creation, county system, living gregariously, many people, military government, military organization, military system). (various references)

Korean 

살아 있�" (Alive). (various references)

Manx

cur bree ayn (energize, exhilarate, invigorate, pep up, vivify), breeghey, bioyraghey (activate, activation, enlivenment, smarten, vitalize), bioghey (enliven, enlivenment). (various references)

Pig Latin

animateay.(various references)

Portuguese

animar (actuate, assure, awake, awaken, brighten, brisk, calorify, cheer, cherish, chirk, comfort, embolden, encourage, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, flush, ginger, grandmother, hearten, heat, incite, inspire, inspirit, jazz, jolly, kittle, liven, liven up, nerve, pep, perk, propel, rally, rouse, smarten, spirit, stimulate, uphold, vitalize, vivify, warm). (various references)

Romanian

aprinde (beacon, blush, enkindle, excite, fan, fire, heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, light up, redden, rot, shine, strike), anima (actuate, enliven, inspire, inspirit, liven, organize, quicken), viu (alive, animated, breathing, bright, eager, eternal, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, high, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vivid, vividly), însufleţi (actuate, enkindle, enliven, ensoul, fire, hearten, inspire, inspirit, liven, quicken, rouse, spirit), încãlzi (chafe, fire, heat, hot up, warm). (various references)

Russian 

воодушевлять (enkindle, enliven, ensoul, flush, inspire, rouse, spirit, warm), оживлять одушевленный, оживлять (brighten, enliven, exhilarate, illumine, jazz up, liven, perk, perk up, quicken, raise from the dead, reanimate, resuscitate, revitalize, souped, souping, vitalize, vivify), одушевить, живой (alive, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

animirati, animiran, oživeti (come to life again, enliven, liven, liven up, recuperate, resuscitate, revitalize, revive, vivify). (various references)

Spanish

animar, animarse, animar (abet, brighten up, brisk, buck up, cheer, embolden, encourage, enliven, fan, fire, hearten, impel, inspire, inspirit, instigate, jazz, lift, liven, liven up, pep up, perk up, pull for, reman, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge, urge on), animado (alive, animated, buoyed up, busy, cheerful, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, ebullient, enlivens, freshens, jazzy, lively, pert, sprightly, upbeat, zippy), alentar (cheer, encourage, inspirit, lift, reassure), viviente (alive, denizen, dweller, lively, living), dar ánimo a, calentar (enliven, freshen, heat, heat up, hot up, scald, stoke, vivify, warm, warm through, warm up). (various references)

Swedish

animera. (various references)

Thai

ทำให้�"ุจมีชีวิต, ทำให้มีชีวิตชีวา (enliven), ทำให้มีชีวิต, ที่มีชีวิตชีวา (effervescent), ซึ่งมีชีวิตชีวา (snell), ซึ่งมีชีวิต, �"ลใจ. (various references)

Turkish

anime etmek, yaşayan (alive, in the flesh, live, lived, living, quick, vital), neşeli (airy, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), neşelendirmek (amuse, brace, brace up, brighten, buck up, cheer, cheer up, elate, enliven, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, light, light up, liven, liven up, quicken, revive, spirit, spirit up, vivify), hayat dolu (alive, alive and kicking, animated, as fresh as daisy, Corky, dewy, exuberant, fresh, full of life, genial, live, lively, quick, sprightly, vital, vivacious, vivid), hareketli (active, alive and kicking, bouncing, brisk, bustling, full of action, go-go, like a jack-in-the-box, live, mobile, moving, rattling, restless, shifting, sliding, swinging, zippy), hareketlendirmek (heat, heat up, make things hum, mobilize, quicken, set going, zing up, zip up), diriltmek (bring to life, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize, revive, revivify, vitalize), canlandırmak (accelerate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken), canlı (active, alive, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy). (various references)

Ukrainian

оживляти (resuscitate, revitalize, vitalize, vivify), надихати (cheer, ensoul, fire, imbue, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, lift, prepossess, spiritualize, warm), збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, arouse, electrify, elevate, exalt, excite, flurry, flush, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up), збуджений (ablaze, agitated, astir, excited, feverish, heated, hot, intoxicate, irritated, nervy, overwrought, spasmodic, tense, tumultuous, warm, wrought), живий (above ground, alive, live, lively, living, on the hoof, vegetal, vivacious), пожвавлений (active, animated, cheery, lively). (various references)

Vietnamese 

náo nhiệt (animated), có sinh khí, có sức sống nhộn nhịp. (various references)

Welsh

ysgogi (actuate, move, stir), bywiol (living), bywiogi (enliven), bywioca/u (quicken, vivify), bywhau (quicken, vivify), byw (alive, life, live, living, quick). (various references)

anima, animale, animales, animalia, animalibus, animalis, animalium, animantem, animantia, animantibus, animantium, animas, animo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "animate": animated, animatedly, animately, animateness, animatenesses, animater, animaters, animates. (additional references)

Words ending with "animate": exanimate, inanimate, reanimate. (additional references)

Words containing "animate": inanimately, inanimateness, inanimatenesses, reanimated, reanimates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Animate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adimate, akimoto, amimeche, aminate, Aniane, anilate, animae, animale, animat, animateo, animath, animatic, Animaze, animie, annonate, antimate, Anuwat, iniate, Janmaat, Naimat, namaste, Namath, nimat, onimode. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amentia.

-1 letter: anemia, etamin, inmate, taenia, tamein.

-2 letters: amain, ament, amine, amnia, anima, anime, antae, atman, entia, manat, mania, manta, matin, meant, menta, minae, tenia, tinea.

-3 letters: amen, amia, amie, amin, anta, ante, anti, atma, emit, etna, item, main, mana, mane, mate, mean, meat, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mite, name, neat, nema, nite, tain.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: agminate, amentias, animated, animater, animates, anthemia, antimale, diamante, enigmata, haematin, laminate, marinate, nizamate.

+2 letters: abominate, acuminate, almandite, aluminate, amazonite, ammoniate, anatomies, anatomise, anatomize, animately, animaters, catamenia, deaminate, diamantes, emanating, emanation, emanative, examinant, exanimate, haematins, inanimate, laminated, laminates, machinate, manganite, marginate, marinated, marinates, nizamates, reanimate, staminate.

+3 letters: abominated, abominates, adamantine, admittance, alimentary, almandites, aluminates, amantadine, amazonites, ambivalent, amiantuses, ammoniated, ammoniates, anamnestic, anatomised, anatomises, anatomized, anatomizes, animadvert, animatedly, antianemia, antifemale, antimarket, antimatter, attainment, calumniate, catamenial, deaminated, deaminates, defamation, delaminate, emaciating, emaciation, emanations, emancipate, emarginate, examinants, gametangia, macerating, maceration, machinated, machinates, mainstream, maintained, maintainer, manganites, manipulate, marginated, marginates, martingale, mediastina, myasthenia, parliament, reanimated, reanimates, semantical, thiaminase.