animate
animate is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body. Face value is 9 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
- transitive verb. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
- transitive verb. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
- transitive verb. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
- adjective. Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
- verb. give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
- verb. make lively
"let's liven up this room a bit"
- verb. give lifelike qualities to
"animated cartoons"
- verb. heighten or intensify
"These paintings exalt the imagination"
- adjective. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness- T.E.Lawrence
"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"
- adjective. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
"we are animate beings"
- adjective. belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
"the word `dog' is animate"
Synonyms
quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify, enliven, invigorate, liven, animise, animize, exalt, inspire, sentient
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in animate:
Common word forms
animated, animater, animates, animately, animating, animateness
Words from these letters
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