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Synonyms & Antonyms for animate
Synonyms: Adjective
active, airy, animated, bouncing, brisk, energetic, frisky, gay, jaunty, jazzy, kinetic, lively, mettlesome, peppy, perky, pert, pizzazzy (or pizazzy), racy, snappy, spanking, sparky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy
Synonyms: Verb
amp (up), brace, energize, enliven, fillip, fire, ginger (up), invigorate, jazz (up), juice up, jump-start, liven (up), pep (up), quicken, spike, stimulate, vitalize, vivify, zip (up)
Antonyms: Adjective
dead, inactive, inanimate, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lifeless, limp, listless, spiritless, vapid
Antonyms: Verb
damp, dampen, deaden, dull, kill
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Examples of animate in a Sentence
Adjective
The lecture was about ancient worship of animate and inanimate objects. an animate dance routine that will really get the blood pumpingVerb
The writer's humor animates the novel. The film's very realistic dinosaurs were animated on computers.
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Both distinguish between an animate direct object and an inanimate one. — The Economist, "JohnsonThe painful origins of many creole languages," 1 Feb. 2018 The goal is to persuade the public to look at these landmarks with new eyes, almost viewing them as animate characters with feelings and backstories instead of just objects to walk past. — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, "Dublin's Statues Will Now Call Your Cell Phone," 17 Oct. 2017 Several people have stories about more animate luggage. — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, "That Time the TSA Found a Scientist’s 3-D-Printed Mouse Penis," 23 May 2017Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Rather than decorating with art, the placement of windows creates shadow and light play that casually animate the walls. — Samantha Weiss Hills, Curbed, "Embracing nature—and minimalism—in North Carolina," 26 Nov. 2018 The 2013 Disney film won the Oscar for best animated feature and went on to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time. — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, "'Frozen' the musical to launch its national tour in Los Angeles," 15 May 2018 The only truly safe bet among any of these categories is the race for best animated feature. — Ben Zauzmer, The Hollywood Reporter, "Oscars: The Math Predicts 'A Fantastic Woman' Foreign-Language Film Win," 1 Mar. 2018 Disney/Pixar has released new footage of Incredibles 2, the follow-up to the Oscar-winning animated feature released in 2004. — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, "'Incredibles 2': Bob Parr struggles with #dadlife in new trailer," 15 Feb. 2018 Live from an enormous arena, Jeff Kaplan showed off a new animated short for Blizzard's hit shooter. — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, "BlizzCon 2018: Warcraft III remastered, and Overwatch gets a new cowboy," 2 Nov. 2018 Bryant’s Dear Basketball took home the Oscar for best animated short at the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday. — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, "Kobe Bryant criticized for past sexual assault accusation following Oscar win," 5 Mar. 2018 Bryant was nominated in the category of best animated short for his collaboration with Glen Keane and composer John Williams on the film Dear Basketball. — Ajc Homepage, ajc, "Kobe Bryant is now an Oscar nominee," 23 Jan. 2018 Sure, Daria was animated, but that didn't make her problems as someone who was a little bit different any less real. — Seventeen, "The 20 Greatest TV Teen Dramas of All Time," 4 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'animate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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