| 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 |
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mineral, plant |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate object |
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animal, beast, body, conscious thing, creature, entity, human, human being, individual, living thing, mortal, organism, person, personage, soul, thing |
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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 |
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death, inanimacy |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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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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| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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
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| Concept: | Life. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; vitality in general |
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-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].
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Antonyms: |
death |
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| Concept: | Animal. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
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-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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