Antonyms for animal
ˈæn ə məlan·i·mal

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

1. animal

   An animal is a sentient being, distinct from inanimate matter and from vegetable life on the one side and from mental and spiritual existence on the other. Thus man is properly classified as an animal. But because the animal life is the lowest and rudest part of his being and that which he shares with inferior creatures, to call any individual man an animal is to imply that the animal nature has undue supremacy, and so is deep condemnation or utter insult. The brute is the animal viewed as dull to all finer feeling; the beast is looked upon as a being of appetites. To call a man a brute is to imply that he is unfeeling and cruel; to call him a beast is to indicate that he is vilely sensual. We speak of the cruel father as a brute to his children; of the drunkard as making a beast of himself. So firmly are these figurative senses established that we now incline to avoid applying brute or beast to any creature, as a horse or dog, for which we have any affection; we prefer in such cases the word animal. Creature is a word of wide signification, including all the things that God has created, whether inanimate objects, plants, animals, angels, or men. The animals of a region are collectively called its fauna.

   Antonyms:
   angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable

   Synonyms:
   beast, brute, fauna, living creature, living organism, sentient being

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1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunaadjective

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

   Antonyms:
   mental

   Synonyms:
   zoology, puppet, fauna, tool, animate being, wight, wildcat, brute, beast, wolf, creature, savage

2. animal(a), carnal, fleshly, sensualadjective

   marked by the appetites and passions of the body

   "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"

   Antonyms:
   mental

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1. animaladjective

   Synonyms:
   brute, beastly, brutal, brutish, bestial, carnal, physical, fleshly

2. animalnoun

   Synonyms:
   being, creature, brute, beast

   Associated words:
   zoölogy, zoölogist, zoögraphy, zoöpathology, zoölatry, zoöphilist, zoöphily, zoötomy, zoiatrics, zoölogical, zoo, warren, taxidermy, taxidermist, veterinarian, veterinarianism, menagerie, pound, animalism, animalize, animalization

How to use animal in a sentence?

1. Carmen Neskowi:

   There's no organization, they treat you like an animal, they don't respect anything.

2. Cliff Bollmann:

   A lot of our design making is in collaboration with veterinarians and consultants to help minimize the amount of stress placed on the animal.

3. Claire Bass:

   Yet again Bear Grylls' animal killing activities are quite rightly coming under fire, it's time for TV to dump this tired routine of men charging around the wilderness dominating wildlife and killing for ratings. It shows a callous disregard for the natural world and treats animals like mere props.

4. Emily Yuko Hallett:

   And when I was going through them -- there were around 12,000 animal bones -- I started to notice these bones that had a very different shape. It wasn't a natural shape. And they had sheen on them, and they were shiny, and they had striations( grooves or scratches) on them.

5. Reynold Thakhuli:

   We will not take him back to the park, unfortunately this lion has now been identified as a problem animal and will be euthanized.

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