Definitions For Animate

verb

  • Give new life or energy to
  • Make lively
  • Give lifelike qualities to
  • Heighten or intensify

adjective

  • Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  • Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
  • Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

noun

  • To make (someone or something) lively or excited
  • To make (something, such as a drawing) appear to move by creating a series of drawings, pictures, etc., and showing them quickly one after another : to make (something) appear to move by using the process of animation

Is Animates a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
12

The word Animate is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Animate in a Sentence

  • The lecture was about ancient worship of animate and inanimate objects.
  • An animate dance routine that will really get the blood pumping
  • The writer's humor animates the novel.
  • The film's very realistic dinosaurs were animated on computers.

Synonyms for Animate

Antonyms for Animates

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