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animate

Pronunciation: /ˈæn.ɪ.mət/

The English word “animate” has 8 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. That lives.
  2. That has (or is believed to have) a spirit (anima) and/or some amount of consciousness and sentience, either being alive or supernaturally seeming alive.
  3. Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
  4. Dynamic, energetic.
  5. having a referent that is considered alive (this generally includes humans, animals and deities, sometimes also plants, spirits, etc.)
  6. Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.

verb

  1. To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
  2. To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.

Etymology

From Middle English animat(e), from Latin animātus, perfect passive participle of animō (“to fill with breath, quicken, encourage, animate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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