animate

(a) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
- the word "dog" is animate
(a) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
- we are animate beings
(a) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
- the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage - T.E.Lawrence
sentient,

(v) heighten or intensify
- These paintings exalt the imagination
enliven, inspire, invigorate, exalt,
(v) give lifelike qualities to
- animated cartoons
animise, animize,
(v) make lively
- let's liven up this room a bit
liven, liven up, enliven, invigorate,
(v) give new life or energy to
- A hot soup will revive me
- This will renovate my spirits
- This treatment repaired my health
reanimate, recreate, revivify, vivify, revive, renovate, quicken, repair,

enliven inspire invigorate exalt animise animize sentient liven liven up reanimate recreate revivify vivify revive renovate quicken repair

inanimate nonliving non-living insensate insentient blunt deaden

animal

animate being animated animated cartoon animatedly animated oat animateness animate thing