animate being

Questions about animate being

What is another word for animate being?

It depends which animate being you mean. In the sense “a living organism characterized by voluntary movement”, the synonyms are animal, beast, brute, creature, fauna. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of animate being?

WordNet records no antonym for animate being. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for animate being come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of animate being

• Full entry for animate beingAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for animate beingWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.