ANIMALS [an-uh-muhl]
Main Entry:
animal [an-uh-muhl]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: animate being; mammal
Synonyms: beast, being, brute, bum*, creature, critter, invertebrate, living thing, mutt, pet, stray, varmint, vertebrate, wild thing
Antonyms: mineral, plant
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Animal.
Category: 1. Vitality; special vitality
Synonyms:
-nouns
animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation., beast, brute, creature, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature., flocks and herds, livestock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, feroe naturoe; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe., mammal, quadruped, bird, reptile, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, zoophyte; animalcule; alligator, crocodile; honeybee; saurian; trout., horse (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu., dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, ointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie., cat; puss, pussy; grimalkin; gib cat, tom cat., bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon., fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar., snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick; vermin.
-adjectives
animal, zoological, equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory, piscatorial; molluscous, vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.
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Main Entry: athlete
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person involved in sports
Synonyms: amateur, animal, challenger, competitor, contender, contestant, games player, gorilla, iron person, jock, jockey, muscle person, player, professional, shoulders, sport, sportsperson, superjock
Main Entry: being
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: animate object
Synonyms: animal, beast, body, conscious thing, creature, entity, human, human being, individual, living thing, mortal, organism, person, personage, soul, thing
Antonyms: abstract, inanimate
Main Entry: brute
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: barbarian
Synonyms: animal, beast, cannibal, creature, critter, degenerate, devil, fiend, lout, monster, ogre, ruffian, sadist, savage, swine, wild animal
Antonyms: gentleman, humanitarian
Main Entry: creature
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: being, beast
Synonyms: animal, body, brute, creation, critter, fellow, individual, living being, living thing, lower animal, man, mortal, party, person, personage, quadruped, soul, varmint, woman
Antonyms: abstract, inanimate
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: being
Synonyms: animal, animateness, animation, body, breath, consciousness, continuance, creature, endurance, entity, essence, existence, flesh, flesh and blood, growth, human, human being, individual, living, living being, living thing, man, metabolism, mortal, mortal being, organism, person, personage, presence, soul, subsistence, substantiality, survival, symbiosis, viability, vital spark, vitality, wildlife, woman
Antonyms: death, inanimacy
Main Entry: mortal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: human being
Synonyms: animal, being, body, character, creature, earthling, human, individual, living soul, man, naked ape, party, person, personage, soul, woman
Antonyms: animal, plant
Main Entry: organism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: living thing
Synonyms: animal, being, body, creature, entity, morphon, person, plant, structure
Antonyms: concept, inanimate
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