animate thing

Questions about animate thing

What is another word for animate thing?

It depends which animate thing you mean. In the sense “a living (or once living) entity”, the synonyms are living thing. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 thing?

WordNet records no antonym for animate thing. 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 thing 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 thing

• Full entry for animate thingAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for animate thingWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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