<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to give life to; make alive: God animated the dust.</li><li>Synonyms: vitalize, quicken, vivify</li><li>Antonyms: kill</li><li>to make lively, vivacious, or vigorous; give zest or spirit to: Her presence animated the party.</li><li>Synonyms: fortify, energize</li><li>to fill with courage or boldness; encourage: to animate weary troops.</li><li>Synonyms: exhilarate, arouse, hearten, inspirit, inspire</li><li>to move or stir to action; motivate: He was animated by religious zeal.</li><li>Synonyms: prompt, kindle, urge, fire, incite, excite</li><li>to give motion to: leaves animated by a breeze.</li><li>to render or produce (a story, character, movie, etc.) by using animation: to animate the characters in a video game; to animate a children's story; an animated film.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>alive; possessing life: animate creatures.</li><li>Antonyms: dead</li><li>lively: an animate expression of joy.</li><li>of or relating to animal life.</li><li>able to move voluntarily.</li><li>Linguistics. belonging to a syntactic category or having a semantic feature that is characteristic of words denoting beings regarded as having perception and volition (inanimate).</li></ul>