Animal

What do we mean by animal?

Any of numerous multicellular eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Metazoa (or Animalia) that ingest food rather than manufacturing it themselves and are usually able to move about during at least part of their life cycle. Sponges, jellyfishes, flatworms, mollusks, arthropods, and vertebrates are animals. noun

An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal. noun

A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner. noun

A human considered with respect to his or her physical nature, as opposed to rational or spiritual nature. noun

A person having a specified aptitude or set of interests. noun

Relating to, characteristic of, or derived from an animal or animals, especially when not human. adjective

Relating to the physical as distinct from the rational or spiritual nature of people. adjective

Pertaining to sensation. See animal spirits, below.

Having life; living; animate.

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a living being, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; of man, pertaining to those parts of his nature which he shares with inferior animals.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from animals.

A sentient living being; an individual, organized, animated, and sentient portion of matter; in zoology, one of the Animalia; a member of the animal kingdom, as distinguished from a vegetable or a mineral. noun

An inferior or irrational sentient being, in contradistinction to man; a brute; a beast: as, men and animals. noun

A contemptuous term for a human being in whom the animal nature has the ascendancy. noun

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity. noun

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man. noun

Of or relating to animals. adjective

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part. adjective

Consisting of the flesh of animals. adjective

See Magnetism and Mesmerism. adjective

In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).

In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).

A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

A person of a particular type.

Matter, thing.

Words that are spelled similarly to animal:
animal, anima, anomal, animas, manimal, anibal, anumal, nimal, animar.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word animal:
husbandry, cruelty, peta, welfare, veterinary, humane, skins, animals, pets, slaughter, zoo, bones, pigs, vegetable, sacrifice, pet, fur, nutrition, shelter, livestock, cats, feed, liberation, meat, sheep, breeding, dogs, planet, mammals, sanctuary, deer, dairy, behavior, behaviour, humans, feeding, prey, rights, cattle, activist, models, rescue, dog, fat, testing, cat, hunting, species, diet, insects, wildlife, skin, tissue, farming, diseases, lion, genetic, wild, human, bone, collective, plant, farm, protection, agriculture, birds.

Words that rhyme with animal:
anomal, americana mill.

Adjectives that are often used to describe animal:
wild, little, human, small, large, young, experimental, poor, only, whole, domestic, dead, rational, normal, single, intact, individual, noble, strange, beautiful, sacred, sacrificial, big, infected, dangerous, huge, male, mere, fine, live, healthy, stuffed, like, larger, blooded, caged, dumb, frightened, domesticated, largest, rabid, carnivorous, sick, female, hunted, trapped, intelligent, powerful, legged, useful, rare, hungry, marine, mature, gregarious, favorite, valuable, magnificent, curious, smaller, perfect, ferocious, fierce, footed, faithful, vertebrate, aquatic, dominant, unclean, susceptible, slaughtered, savage, nocturnal, diseased, looking, adult.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective animal:
life, food, studies, experiments, matter, models, behaviour, magnetism, husbandry, behavior, body, power, fat, form, kingdom, welfare, cells, charcoal, sacrifice, products, inoculation, skins, nutrition, manure, flesh, health, spirits, hair, bones, sacrifices, parasites, blood, research, tissues, learning, experimentation, rights, species, physiology, fats, care, bone, intelligence, figures, skin, worship, material, heat, existence, dander, protein, head, dung, production, stories, proteins, foods, breeding, populations, psychology, model, disease, glue, fodder, communication, starch, diseases, bodies, electricity, domestication, locomotion, diet, interactions, names, viruses, substances, feed, science, instinct, relationships, faith, testing, substance, instincts, bites, consciousness, subjects, manures, farm, lovers, brains, tests, soul.

Consonant match to animal:
enamel, anomal.

Words that sound like animal:
animal, animale, oenomel, animals, anima, aminal, animales, manimal, anama, animally, enamel, anomal, anomale, animate, anomoly, anamoly, anomie, animas, anmol, anomy, anomia, anormal, anna mae, animi, anna molly, minimal, enema, intimal, einmal, animo, animaux, antennal, annual, anual, aniel, annuel, anime, anvil, annabelle, annul, annum, annal, anel, anil, manama, amel, anaemia, angele, anem, andel, aminals, anam, antle, annamarie, anile, animes, andal, annamese, annam, anele, laminal, anatole, anumal, agonal, aml, annandale, akmal, antal, animalize, anthema, animize, annibal, anma, anael, animise, animists, antel, anatol, an angel, annamite, animato, animalic, sea animal, anginal, en famille, animalise, annie hall, asml, atmel, the animal, anomaly, dumbell, enemas, anomalie, anomala, enamels, enameled, bummel, domal, enamelled.