Definition of animate

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• animate is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 9
• animate is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 9
• animate is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11

Definition of animate

• give lifelike qualities to (verb)

  Examples

  1. animated cartoons

  Synonyms

  1. animise
  2. animize
• heighten or intensify (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. enliven
  2. exalt
  3. inspire
  4. invigorate
• make lively (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. enliven
  2. invigorate
  3. liven
  4. liven up
• give new life or energy to (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. quicken
  2. reanimate
  3. recreate
  4. renovate
  5. repair
  6. revive
  7. revivify
  8. vivify
• endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. sentient
• belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the word `dog' is animate
• endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life (adjective)

  Examples

  1. we are animate beings

See definition of animate in Merriam Webster