Word Meanings - ANIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

animus soul, mind, Gr. an to breathe, live, Goth. us-anan to expire , Icel. önd breath, anda to breathe, OHG. ando anger. Cf. 1. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body. 2. To give powers to,

Additional info about word: ANIMATE

animus soul, mind, Gr. an to breathe, live, Goth. us-anan to expire , Icel. önd breath, anda to breathe, OHG. ando anger. Cf. 1. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body. 2. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre. Dryden. 3. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. Knolles. Syn. -- To enliven; inspirit; stimulate; exhilarate; inspire; instigate; rouse; urge; cheer; prompt; incite; quicken; gladden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANIMATE)

• Arouse
• Stir
• excite
• disturb
• animate
• wake up
• stimulate
• alarm
• provoke
• cheer
• Buoy
• Float
• support
• sustain
• elevate
• elate
• assure
• inspire
• Enliven
• Wake
• vivify
• quicken
• invigorate
• exhilarate
• rouse
• inspirit
• Exhort
• Urge
• advise
• counsel
• enjoin
• incite
• Inspire
• Animate
• inflame
• imbue
• impel
• encourage
• inhale
• enliven
• breathe in
• infuse

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ANIMATE)

• Compose
• embolden
• reassure
• rally
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to ANIMATE)

• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• EXHORTER
  One who exhorts or incites.
• FLOATATION
  See FLOTATION
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• INHALENT
  Used for inhaling; as, the inhalent end of a duct. Dana.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.