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- US Pronunciation
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- [an-uh-muh l]
- /ˈæn ə məl/
- /ˈænɪml/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [an-uh-muh l]
- /ˈæn ə məl/
Definitions of animal word
- countable noun animal An animal is a living creature such as a dog, lion, or rabbit, rather than a bird, fish, insect, or human being. 3
- countable noun animal Any living creature other than a human being can be referred to as an animal. 3
- countable noun animal Any living creature, including a human being, can be referred to as an animal. 3
- adjective animal Animal products come from animals rather than from plants. 3
- countable noun animal If you say that someone is an animal, you find their behaviour disgusting or very unpleasant. 3
- adjective animal Animal qualities, feelings, or abilities relate to someone's physical nature and instincts rather than to their mind. 3
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Origin of animal
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; Middle English (< Old French) < Latin, noun derivative (with loss of final vowel and shortening of ā) of animāle, neuter of animālis living, animate, equivalent to anim(a) air, breath + -ālis -al1; E adj. also directly < Latin animālis
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Parts of speech for Animal
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
animal popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for animal
noun animal
- pet — a fit of peevishness, sulking, or bad mood.
- beast — You can refer to an animal as a beast, especially if it is a large, dangerous, or unusual one.
- creature — You can refer to any living thing that is not a plant as a creature, especially when it is of an unknown or unfamiliar kind. People also refer to imaginary animals and beings as creatures.
- stray — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- being — Being is the present participle of be1.
adjective animal
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- bodily — Your bodily needs and functions are the needs and functions of your body.
- visceral — of or relating to the viscera.
- instinctive — of, relating to, or of the nature of instinct.
- innate — existing in one from birth; inborn; native: innate musical talent.
Antonyms for animal
noun animal
- mineral — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
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