Antonyms for animal

Grammar : Adj, noun

Spell : an-uh-muhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn ə məl

Definition of animal

Origin : early 14c. (but rare before c.1600, and not in KJV, 1611), "any living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," neuter of animalis "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (see animus, and cf. deer). Drove out the older beast in common usage. Used of brutish humans from 1580s.

adj beastlike; carnal
noun animate being; mammal

Example sentences :

With a sharp piece of flint he cut the fur of the animal's back.
Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon

Do you make up your mind beforehand that if the animal should kill you, it is all right?
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

It is this that distinguishes this class of foods from animal foods.
Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Unless they say something like that the spirit of the animal killed might do them some mischief.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

This is the animal page of the Sunday Star and Cadge is in a hurry for it, to do the obbligato.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

But in this case Kingozi was nearer a hundred and twenty than twenty yards from the animal.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

He should then pace the distance between himself and that animal.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

Indeed, it seemed as if there were something about the animal that bewitched people.
Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

They were at the foot of a cliff, over which the animal had probably fallen.
Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

How little we really understand of the animal creation about us, with all our pride of wisdom!
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

Synonyms for animal

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