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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: being
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: animate object

Synonyms:

animal, beast, body, conscious thing, creature, entity, human, human being, individual, living thing, mortal, organism, person, personage, soul, thing

Antonyms:

abstract, inanimate
Main Entry: creature
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: being, beast

Synonyms:

animal, body, brute, creation, critter, fellow, individual, living being, living thing, lower animal, man, mortal, party, person, personage, quadruped, soul, varmint, woman

Antonyms:

abstract, inanimate
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: being

Synonyms:

animal, animateness, animation, body, breath, consciousness, continuance, creature, endurance, entity, essence, existence, flesh, flesh and blood, growth, human, human being, individual, living, living being, living thing, man, metabolism, mortal, mortal being, organism, person, personage, presence, soul, subsistence, substantiality, survival, symbiosis, viability, vital spark, vitality, wildlife, woman

Antonyms:

death, inanimacy
Related Words
Main Entry: animal
Part of Speech: adjective, noun
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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
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
above ground, aerobic, agamic, agrestian, alive, all alive and kicking, anaerobic, animated, archesporial, autacoidal, azzardly, bacillary, basal, bimanous, biodegradable, biomorphic, bionomic, biped, bircrural, blissom, breathing, celative, crepitous, cryptic, dacryopyostic, deglutitious, diallel, digenous, digoneutic, ditokous, diurnal, dizygotic, edentate, endothermic, epigamic, exogenous, gamic, haploid, hematic, hyperosmic, impar, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, indefatigable, lively, living, luxuriant, mammillated, marine, mercurial, metapneustic, microsmatic, motor, multilocular, muriform, myogenic, nizzertit, on this side of the grave, oviparous, ovoviviparous, palamate, paratonic, parthenic, parturient, pelagic, promethean, quick, rank, recuperated, refreshed, refreshing, ruttish, sedentary, sphygmic, spodogenous, stenobathic, tenacious of life, totipotent, untired, unwearied, urled, vegete, vital, vivacious, vivified, vivifying, yeld, zoetic
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Life.
Category: 1. Vitality; vitality in general

Synonyms:

-nouns
life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit., respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; lifeblood; Archeus; existence., vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization; revivification; Prometheus; life to come (destiny)., [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology., nourishment, staff of life (food) [more].
-verbs
be alive; live, breathe, respire; subsist (exist); walk the earth; "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared., see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life., give birth to (produce); bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate (restore); keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life., have nine lives like a cat.
-adjectives
living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life., vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified; viable, zoetic; Promethean.
-adverbs
vivendi causa.
-phrases
atqui vivere militare est [Seneca]; non est vivre sed valere vita [Martial].

Antonyms:

death
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Concept Thesaurus
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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