Word Meanings - ANIMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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

Additional info about word: ANIMAL

1. 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. 2. One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANIMAL)

• Carnal
• Fleshly
• sensual
• selfindulgent
• licentious
• animal
• coarse
• base
• worldly
• impure
• libidinous
• secular
• Creature
• Being
• thing
• body
• brute
• Gross
• Entire
• vulgar
• vicious
• bloated
• bulk
• indelicate
• outrageous
• unseemly
• shameful
• Sensual
• fleshly
• voluptuous
• lewd

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