animate
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈænɪˌmeɪt/
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vivo
- The wind made the light and an ash tree seem as one, animate, animated, yet mortal.
- an animate being
- animate and inanimate
But they did know how to change matter into animated life of some form.
- But they did know how to change matter into animated life of some form.
- The wind made the light and an ash tree seem as one, animate, animated, yet mortal.
- So that is a thinking in which all matter is animate.
- So it's important to resist androidization, the reduction to the ultimately inanimate, animated but not animate.
- Says if the virtues are actually going to be animate creatures, then they're going to be like other animate creatures.
Examples
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Indeed, any interaction between humans and the environment may produce a sense that the world is responsive and animate, and therefore humanlike.
Academic text (2001) -
Other scholars have insisted on the animate quality of time and its influences in the novel.
Academic text (2017) -
According to our way of looking, the world is animate.
Academic text (2001) -
You are a multidimensional living animate being.
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I mean, paganism is the belief that all things are animate, right?
Fiction book (1994) -
Think of them as animate, intelligent Geiger counters.
Fiction book (2001) -
So we have all sorts of animate and inanimate objects that we shouldn't get angry with.
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The documentary showcased many animate creatures thriving in their natural habitat.
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In the children's story, the animate toys came to life at night.
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The artist aimed to capture the animate essence of the forest in her painting.
Synonyms
So realistic it seems alive
Antonyms
How Alive
Surface Forms
Morphology
animate = anim + ate
The root 'anim-' is a Latin combining form (not a standalone English word), so the composition anim + -ate is not transparently recoverable by a typical B1 learner.
Etymology
Animate comes from the Latin root anima meaning 'life' or 'breath', the same root as animal. So something animate is alive or has life.