animal
animal is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
- noun. One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
- adjective. Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
- adjective. Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
- adjective. Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
- noun. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- adjective. marked by the appetites and passions of the body
"animal instincts"
"carnal knowledge"
Synonyms
beast, brute, creature, fauna, carnal, fleshly, sensual
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in animal:
almain, lamina, malian, manila
Common word forms
animals, animally, animalise, animality, animalize, animalness
Words from these letters
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