Linguistics. belonging to a syntactic category or having a semantic feature that is characteristic of words denoting beings regarded as having perception and volition (opposed to inanimate).

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English animat < Latin animātus filled with breath or air, quickened, animated (past participle of animāre). See anima, -ate¹

Related forms

an·i·mate·ly, adverb

an·i·mate·ness, noun

an·i·mat·ing·ly, adverb

in·ter·an·i·mate, verb (used with object), -mat·ed, -mat·ing.

non·an·i·mate, adjective

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non·an·i·mat·ing, adjective

non·an·i·mat·ing·ly, adverb

sem·i·an·i·mate, adjective

un·an·i·mat·ing, adjective

un·an·i·mat·ing·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
1. vivify, quicken, vitalize. 2. energize, fortify. Animate, invigorate, stimulate mean to enliven. To animate is to create a liveliness: Health and energy animated his movements. To invigorate means to give physical vigor, to refresh, to exhilarate: Mountain air invigorates. To stimulate is to arouse a latent liveliness on a particular occasion: Alcohol stimulates. 3. inspire, inspirit, hearten, arouse, exhilarate. 4. excite, incite, fire, urge, kindle, prompt.

Antonyms
1. kill. 7. dead.

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Example Sentences

Your unerring kindness, character, strength and integrity animate and advise our lives.

Let's teach the debates-all sides of them-that animate our intellectual culture.

The motion-capture data were then used to animate a humanoid avatar that was featureless and gender-neutral.

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Your unerring kindness, character, strength and integrity animate and advise our lives.

Let's teach the debates-all sides of them-that animate our intellectual culture.

The motion-capture data were then used to animate a humanoid avatar that was featureless and gender-neutral.

And deer and raccoons and songbirds still wake every dawn to animate this timeless landscape.

As you can see for your self the atom fits the definition for life and is an animate object.

Watch the images from our photo contest animate your screen while your computer is not in use.

The images then animate and provide a click through link if rolled over with a mouse.

Standing in awe at the perseverance of objects, animate and inanimate.

Toys were chosen also because they are relatively easy to model and animate on a computer.

It would make sense for directors to study rodents so that they could correctly animate the critters.

In other words, scientists have not shown how life began, how inanimate materials become animate.

It'll animate and collide realistically with everything.

Every generation has its esoteric questions, which animate a few, but are mocked by the many.

Gravitation can be considered as the cause of various forms of animate and inanimate existence.

If your script gets selected by our staff, we'll animate it.

The motion-capture data were used to animate a humanoid avatar that was featureless and gender-neutral.

The artificial intelligence to animate robots remains several orders of magnitude less than what's needed.

Archibugi obviously comprehends the dialects and nuances that animate her story.

Taymor's production reveals the humans who animate the animals on stage.

He begins to mix and match movies as well as to explore and animate every corner of the theater he inhabits.

He plans to animate the characters in the cartoon to plug advertisers' wares.

They're unabashedly using racial-solidarity politics to animate voters.

Because lenticular technology relies on a moving viewer to animate the images, it works well in the long, narrow corridors.

Trees and flowers were animate beings that housed magical creatures at the base of their.

She is a real illustrator, who believes that pictures should illuminate, animate and follow the words that inspire them.

We will be able to animate the inanimate and remold life into our image.

It looks on the screen as if the two animate were playing, but the dog is rolled over easily by the baby gorilla.

Animate hands, reflected in double, or toes that seemed to kiss grew into human shapes in this fabulous fun house.

The distance between the animate and inanimate diminishes daily.

He enjoys comparing himself to things, animate and inanimate.

Downstairs, the art is strategically arranged to animate different domestic spaces.

Clearwater continues to animate the scene in this eclectic.

But when the lives animate the ideas, everything works.

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World English Dictionary

animate

—vb
1.	to give life to or cause to come alive
2.	to make lively; enliven
3.	to encourage or inspire
4.	to impart motion to; move to action or work
5.	to record on film or video tape so as to give movement to: an animated cartoon

—*adj*
6.	being alive or having life
7.	gay, spirited, or lively

[C16: from Latin animāre to fill with breath, make alive, from anima breath, spirit]

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Word Origin & History

animate

1530s, "to fill with boldness or courage,"from L. animatus pp. of animare "give breath to," also "to endow with a particular spirit, to give courage to," from anima "life, breath" (see animus). The adj. meaning "alive" is from c.1600.

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