Antonyms for animal
ˈæn ə məlan·i·mal

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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. Jan Schmidt-Burbach:

   If you can ride or have a selfie with the animal, chances are that is cruel to the animal.

2. Nita Forouhi:

   Current guidelines have been criticized by those who favor low-carb diets, largely based on short term studies for weight loss or metabolic control in diabetes, but it is vital to consider long-term effects and to examine mortality, as this study did, a really important message from this study is that it is not enough to focus on the nutrients, but whether they are derived from animal or plant sources.

3. Harvey Robertson:

   I didn't actually see the animal at the time as was trying to capture the water color (fluorescent blue) at the point before becoming black.

4. Michael Ryan:

   We obviously need to ensure that we haven't had another spillover from the forest or from a zoonotic or animal source. That is currently under investigation and there is further testing going on and genetic sequencing.

5. Joji Morishita:

   Now elephants are seen as a charismatic animal so just killing it is seen as wrong in many parts of the world, charismatic animals cover not just elephants but (also) whales.

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