| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate being; mammal |
Synonyms: |
beast, being, brute, bum*, creature, critter, invertebrate, living thing, mutt, pet, stray, varmint, vertebrate, wild thing |
Antonyms: |
mineral, plant |
| Main Entry: | coward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is scared, easily intimidated |
Synonyms: |
alarmist, baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, craven, cur, dastard, deserter, faint-of-heart, faintheart, fraidy-cat, funk, gutless, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, malingerer, mouse, pessimist, poltroon, quitter, rabbit, recreant, scaredy cat, shirk, shirker, skulker, sneak, weakling, white liver, wimp*, yellow belly, yellow* |
Antonyms: |
aggressor, hero |
| Main Entry: | ineffective/ineffectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, useless |
Synonyms: |
abortive, anticlimactic, barren, bootless, defeasible, feckless, feeble, forceless, fruitless, futile, idle, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inferior, innocuous, inoperative, invertebrate, lame, limited, neutralized, nugatory, null, null and void, paltry, powerless, spineless, unable, unavailing, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, vain, void, withered, worthless |
Antonyms: |
competent, effective, effectual, efficient, powerful, strong, useful |
| Main Entry: | spineless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cowardly |
Synonyms: |
amoebalike, faint-hearted, fearful, feeble, forceless, frightened, gutless, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, invertebrate, irresolute, lily-livered, nerveless, pithless, soft, spiritless, squeamish, submissive, timid, vacillating, weak, weak-kneed, weak-willed, yellow*, yellow-bellied |
Antonyms: |
bold, brave, strong |
| Main Entry: | weakling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has no strength |
Synonyms: |
baby, chicken heart, chicken*, coward, cream puff, crybaby, dotard, invertebrate, jellyfish, misfit, pushover, wimp*, yellow belly |
Antonyms: |
strongman |
| Main Entry: | weak sister |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weak member of group |
Synonyms: |
chicken, gutless wonder, hothouse plant, invertebrate, jellyfish, meek soul, softy, weak soul, weakling |
| Main Entry: | inefficacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ineffectual |
Synonyms: |
abortive, anticlimactic, barren, bootless, defeasible, feckless, feeble, forceless, fruitless, futile, idle, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffective, inefficient, inept, inferior, innocuous, inoperative, invertebrate, lame, limited, neutralized, nugatory, null, null and void, paltry, powerless, spineless, unable, unavailing, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vain, void, withered, worthless |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
animal, cold, acalephan, acaridal, acaudal, accipitrine, acerous, actinal, aculeate, aestivating, agnine, agonistic, alcine, allocryptic, alopecoid, altricial, amphibious, anadromous, anatine, anguineous, angustirostrate, anserine, apian, apiarian, aprine, apterous, aquatic, arachnoid, arboreal, arctoid, arietine, asinine, asteroidal, australopithecine, avian, bactrian, batoid, batrachoid, bausond, bicaudate, biform, bisontine, blattoid, boopic, bovine, braccate, branchiate, brockle, buteonine, caballine, cameline, canine, capric, carcinomorphic, caridoid, casteroid, catadromous, caudate, cebocephalic, cercopithecan, cervicorn, cervine, cetacean, chelonian, chevaline, chimopelagic, ciconine, clicking, cobriform, colonial, colubrine, columbine, corniculate, corvine, crotaliform, crotaline, crustacean, cuculine, culiciform, culicine, cunicular, cuniculous, cygnine, delphin, didine, dimeric, dinosaurian, dioecious, discophoran, draconic, dragonate, ecaudate, echinoid, elephantine, entomologic, epimeletic, epithelial, epizootic, equine, erinaceous, erostrate, eutherian, falconine, feliform, feline, ferine, fishy, fissiped, fleshly, flightless, frampold, gadoid, gallinaceous, gastropodous, gibbed, giraffine, gliriform, gorilloid, grallatorial, grillid, hamirostrate, harpactophagous, herpestine, herpetiform, herpetine, heterocerous, hibernating, hippiatric, hippic, hippocampine, hippopotamic, hirudinoid, horned, hyenic, hystricine, ichthyoid, impennous, implumous, in utero, in vitro, insectiform, jubate, lacertilian, lagotic, larine, latebricole, latirostrous, lemurine, leonine, leporine, limaceous, limacine, limuloid, longicaudal, loricate, lumbricoid, lupine, lutrine, lyncean, macropodine, macruran, manatine, manxome, marsupial, meline, mephitine, milch, moil, molluscous, murine, muscid, musteline, myoxine, myriapodous, myrmecoid, nasicornous, nematode, nidicolous, nidificant, ocellated, octopean, odonatous, oligotokous, ophic, orthopterous, oscine, ostreiform, ovine, oviparous, ovoviviparous, pagurian, palmigrade, pantherine, papilionaceous, pardine, parotoid, pelargic, percoid, peristeronic, philhippic, phocaenine, phocine, phoenicopterous, piciform, pinniped, piscatorial, piscatory, placoid, plataleiform, plumaged, polyped, porcine, porpentine, precocial, proboscidate, procyanine, pseudepisematic, psittaceous, pulicous, pythonic, quadruped, queenright, rampant, rangiferine, ranine, raptorial, rasorial, remiped, reptilian, rhipipterous, ring, rostrated, runcinate, salamandrine, saurian, scaroid, sciaenid, sciurine, sciuroid, scolopendrine, scombroid, selachian, silurid, sinorous, sirenian, skewbald, soricine, spermophiline, spheniscine, sphragistic, sphyraenoid, statant, strigine, struthian, struthious, suilline, suoid, taeniid, talpoid, tarantulous, teiid, telarian, thanatophidian, therianthropic, theroid, thooid, tigerish, trichechine, truttaceous, turdiform, ungual, unguiculate, ungulate, unguligrade, urinatorial, ursine, vaccine, vermicular, vermiform, vermilingual, verpertilian, vespertilian, vespine, viperine, vituline, viviparous, volucrine, vulpecular, vulturine, warm, xiphosuran, zebrine, zoological, zoomorphic
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| Concept: | Animal. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation., beast, brute, creature, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature., flocks and herds, livestock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, feroe naturoe; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe., mammal, quadruped, bird, reptile, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, zoophyte; animalcule; alligator, crocodile; honeybee; saurian; trout., horse (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu., dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, ointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie., cat; puss, pussy; grimalkin; gib cat, tom cat., bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon., fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar., snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick; vermin.
-adjectives
animal, zoological, equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory, piscatorial; molluscous, vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.
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