animate

verbs

heighten or intensify
"These paintings exalt the imagination"
animate, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate
give lifelike qualities to
"animated cartoons"
animate, animise, animize
is derived from
animator
make lively
"let's liven up this room a bit"
animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up
is derived from
animator
give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify

adjectives

belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
"the word `dog' is animate"
animate
antonym
inanimate
domain category
the scientific study of language
linguistics
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
"we are animate beings"
animate
is derived from
animateness
antonym
inanimate
is an attribute of
the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life
aliveness, animateness, liveness
endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
"the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
animate, sentient
is derived from
animateness