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| Main Entry: |
creature
 [kree-cher] 
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| 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: | beast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large wild animal; brute |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, beastie, creature, critter, fiend, gargoyle, glutton, lower animal, monster, monstrosity, pig, quadruped, swine, varmint |
| 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 |
Example Sentences
- Unable to scramble out, the creature thrashes around, seemingly drowning.
- And an active warm-blooded creature can exceed it's predicted metabolic rate by as much as a factor of ten.
- It's blue, comes from a creature more ancient than dinosaurs, and saves countless human lives.
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, creature, human, individual, mortal, party, person, personage, soul |
| Antonyms: | abstract, concept, fantasy, immateriality, inanimate, thought |
| 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: | entity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object that exists |
| Synonyms: | article, being, body, creature, existence, individual, item, material, matter, organism, presence, quantity, single, singleton, something, stuff, subsistence, substance, thing |
| Antonyms: | abstract, concept, idea |
| Main Entry: | human |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, Homo sapiens |
| Synonyms: | being, biped, body, character, child, creature, individual, life, mortal, personage, soul, wight |
| Notes: | a human is a person while being humane means characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion |
| Antonyms: | abstract, immortal, inanimate, nonentity, plant |
| Main Entry: | individual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | singular person, thing |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, dude*, entity, existence, human being, man, material, matter, mortal, number, party, person, personage, self, singleton, somebody, something, soul, stuff, substance, type, unit, woman |
| Antonyms: | group |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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