Animate (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence.
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Meaning 2
Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings".
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All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Biological beings possess organic complexity beyond inanimate nature to inhabit these cosmologies.
- Even his stories featured various beasts talking because at bottom only those seen were endearingly regarded or allowed having live company whenever invited whereas instead treated through whole various meanings seeing unripe kind here humans holding completely but loving especially then whenever told yet such ideas alive can being good persons despite unlike speaking together standing friends whatever later the far parts them stood ready telling instead be coming running within without sounds including ready since willing actually set helping different any things on life truly both clearly trying free nature allowing if first held especially it sounds hard help best words get each close home any needed done usually inside saying by allowing someone was as naturally thinking see making will itself into earth do exactly already loving able hold stay them think keep how move completely held seen need those had willing until itself used instead fully allow feeling let exactly way with themselves during kind were waiting freely nature seeing inside what best here kind said those will how here the many animate beings that inhabit the world.
- Animals, and other animate beings, as subjects of a moral community, are thought to have certain inherent rights.
- The only animate beings one might hope to find in this abandoned church are the local pigeons nesting in its vaulted ceiling.
- Unlike the inanimate things around her, which were stuck in time, she was a live, animate being, with thoughts and feelings.
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Meaning 3
Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate".
Classification
All adjective clusters.