animate

That lives.

Adjective

That lives.
Synonyms: alive living vital above ground alive and kicking alive and well animate animated extant kicking live lively livesome quick still with us surviving undeceased vitalic

Antonyms: inanimate lifeless asleep at rest blessed cadaverous clay-cold deceased resting decomposed defunct departed expired extinct fey gone good inert kaput killed late living impaired low no longer with us
Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
Synonyms: dynamic kinetic motile afoot animate astir cursory in motion mobile moving on the move on the wing under sail unstill ambulatory motive movable vagile

Antonyms: inanimate sessile static at rest dull impassive lifeless motionless sedent sedentary stationary still stock-still torpid unmoved unmoving fixed immobile immotile immovable inert rigid stuck unmovable
Dynamic, energetic.
- She is an engaging and animate speaker.
Synonyms: lively perky vivacious active dynamic energetic abuzz agile airy alive animate animated brisk busy busy as a bee buxom buzzing diligent driven driving eager effervescent enthusiastic expeditious

Antonyms: quiescent sedentary static abeyant at rest cessant dormant dull fallow idle inactive inert languid latent nonactive passive silent sedent slow suspended torpid unactive unbusy unemployed
having a referent that is considered alive (this generally includes humans, animals and deities, sometimes also plants, spirits, etc.)
- Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate.
Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.
Antonyms: inanimate

Origin

From Middle English animat(e), from Latin animātus, perfect passive participle of animō (“to fill with breath, quicken, encourage, animate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).