| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | Animal. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
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-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 |