At its most basic, animate means simply alive, while inanimate means not living, not moving around. But animate also means spirited, or brought to life.
To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken;
Verb
give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
Verb
make lively; "let''s liven up this room a bit"
Verb
give life-like qualities to; "animated cartoons"
Verb
heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
Adjective
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God''s stage"- T.E.Lawrence
Adjective
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
Adjective
belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog'' is animate"
v. t.
To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as,
the soul animates the body.
v. t.
To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect
of; as, to animate a lyre.
v. t.
To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to
inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
a.
Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
Animate
The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice.
Animate
The admirable structure of animate bodies.
To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken;
Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
Usage Examples
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
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Other Usage ExamplesForests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
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