Animate vs Corporeal - What's the difference?
animate | corporeal | Related terms |
That which lives.
Possessing the quality or ability of motion.
Dynamic, energetic.
(grammar, of a noun or pronoun) Having a referent that includes a human or animal.
(grammar) Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.
To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.
To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.
* Knolles
Material; tangible; physical.
Of or pertaining to the body; bodily.
* {{quote-book
, year=2000
, author=Margaret Atwood
, title=The Blind Assassin
, passage=She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.}}
(archaic) Corporal.
Animate is a related term of corporeal.
As a verb animate
is .As an adjective corporeal is
material; tangible; physical.animate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She is an engaging and animate speaker.
- Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate.
Synonyms
(synonyms) * (that lives) alive, live, living * (possessing the quality or ability of motion) * (dynamic) active, dynamic, energeticAntonyms
(antonyms) * (living) inanimate * (possessing the quality or ability of motion) fixed, immobile, static, stationary, still * (dynamic) static * (sense) inanimateVerb
(animat)- If we animate the model, we can see the complexity of the action.
- The more to animate the people, he stood on high and cried unto them with a loud voice.
Anagrams
* * English heteronyms ----corporeal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. - Milton