What is another word for animal?
Synonyms for animal
ˈæn ə məlan·i·mal
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 beingAntonyms:
angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable
Princeton's WordNet
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, savageAntonyms:
mentalanimal(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
Editors Contribution
organismnoun
i am studying an animal. or i am studying an organism.
Submitted by christinam.88369 on October 20, 2022
Dictionary of English Synonymes
animalnoun
Synonyms:
creature, living being, created beinganimalnoun
Synonyms:
BEAST, BRUTE, irrational creature, dumb creature, beast of the field, fowl of the air, denizen of the deep
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
animaladjective
Synonyms:
brute, beastly, brutal, brutish, bestial, carnal, physical, fleshlyanimalnoun
Synonyms:
being, creature, brute, beastAssociated words:
zoölogy, zoölogist, zoögraphy, zoöpathology, zoölatry, zoöphilist, zoöphily, zoötomy, zoiatrics, zoölogical, zoo, warren, taxidermy, taxidermist, veterinarian, veterinarianism, menagerie, pound, animalism, animalize, animalization
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "animal":
animals, livestock, animale, pet, beast, animal-sourced, animalistic, animales, zoo, animal-based, animal-derived, veterinary, wildlife, beasts, animali
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1247 | tool | |
#1294 | animal | |
#1411 | animals | |
#1803 | pet | |
#3215 | wildlife | |
#4619 | beast | |
#5073 | wolf | |
#5536 | zoo | |
#7202 | veterinary | |
#8143 | livestock | |
#9792 | savage | |
#9827 | creature | |
#15375 | puppet | |
#16135 | fauna | |
#16634 | wight | |
#17652 | beasts | |
#19536 | zoology | |
#23477 | brute | |
#26826 | wildcat | |
#46863 | animale | |
#46878 | animales | |
#72411 | animali | |
#144161 | animalistic |
How to use animal in a sentence?
Deaf, blind and disoriented, Tosca was found stumbling around in her cage on Monday, she lost her sense of smell. It was a pathetic sight. Veterinarians, animal protection officials and zoo officials came to a joint decision to put the elderly Tosca out of her misery.
They should have used a proper procedure to stop Mubarak Soulemane, they're telling Mubarak Soulemane to get out of the car, but the car is blocked, how can Mubarak Soulemane get out ? The cop shot him seven times, as if he was an animal. This is murder. They murdered my son.
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
The engineered ligament is biocompatible and can stabilize the knee, allowing the animal to function, most importantly, we may have found a way to integrate an artificial ligament with native bone.
We know for sure it is not a plant but we don't really if it's an animal or a fungus, it behaves very surprisingly for something that looks like a mushroom (...) it has the behavior of an animal, it is able to learn.
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- حيوانArabic
- zvířeCzech
- dyrDanish
- TierGerman
- bestoEsperanto
- animalSpanish
- حیوانPersian
- eläinFinnish
- animalFrench
- जानवरHindi
- állatHungarian
- hewanIndonesian
- animaleItalian
- 動物Japanese
- 동물Korean
- AnimalLatin
- dierDutch
- dyrNorwegian
- zwierzęPolish
- animalPortuguese
- animalRomanian
- djur-Swedish
- கால்நடைTamil
- hayvanTurkish
- тваринаUkrainian
- thú vậtVietnamese
- 動物Chinese
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