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Synonyms for animal
ˈæn ə məlan·i·mal

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.8 / 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.

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

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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

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

    a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

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

    Antonyms:
    mental

  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. organismnoun

    i am studying an animal. or i am studying an organism.

    Submitted by christinam.88369 on October 20, 2022  

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.5 / 2 votes

  1. animalnoun

    Synonyms:
    creature, living being, created being

  2. animalnoun

    Synonyms:
    BEAST, BRUTE, irrational creature, dumb creature, beast of the field, fowl of the air, denizen of the deep

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How to use animal in a sentence?

  1. Spirit Airlines:

    To be clear, at no point did any of our agents suggest this guest( or any other for that matter) should flush or otherwise injure an animal.

  2. Adrian Sestelo:

    When you don't know the biology of a species, to unjustifiably claim it suffers abuse, is stressed or depressed, is to make one of man's most common mistakes, which is to humanize animal behavior.

  3. The CFIA:

    The CFIA is seeking to confirm the age of the animal, its history and how it became infected. The investigation will focus in on the feed supplied to this animal during the first year of its life.

  4. Cynthia Sass:

    Just 2 to 20 percent of the iron in plant foods makes its way from your digestive tract into your blood, compared to 15 to 35 percent from heme animal-based iron.

  5. John Jensen:

    If you are able to safely and humanely dispatch of the animal, we encourage that and we want that information too.


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