Animalistic vs. Animal

In the manner of an animal; savage; untamed.

Of or pertaining to animalism.

of or pertaining to animalism.

of or pertaining to animalism

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).

Example: ‘A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not 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.).

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

Example: ‘My students are animals.’;

(informal) A person of a particular type.

Example: ‘He's a political animal.’;

, thing.

Example: ‘a whole different animal’;

Of or relating to animals.

Example: ‘animal instincts’;

Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

Example: ‘animal passions’;

Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.

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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.

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

Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

of the appetites and passions of the body;

Example: ‘animal instincts’; ‘carnal knowledge’; ‘fleshly desire’; ‘a sensual delight in eating’; ‘music is the only sensual pleasure without vice’;

of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals;

Example: ‘the animal kingdom’; ‘animal instincts’; ‘animal fats’; ‘decaying vegetable matter’;

a living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli

Example: ‘wild animals adapt badly to a caged life’; ‘humans are the only animals who weep’;

an animal as opposed to a human being

Example: ‘are humans superior to animals, or just different?’;

a mammal, as opposed to a bird, reptile, fish, or insect

Example: ‘the snowfall seemed to have chased all birds, animals, and men indoors’;

a person without human attributes or civilizing influences, especially someone who is very cruel, violent, or repulsive

Example: ‘those men have to be animals—what they did to that boy was savage’;

a particular type of person or thing

Example: ‘property development was a different animal altogether’; ‘I am a political animal’;

relating to or characteristic of animals

Example: ‘animal welfare’; ‘the evolution of animal life’;

of animals as distinct from plants

Example: ‘tissues of animal and vegetable protein’;

characteristic of the physical and instinctive needs of animals; of the flesh rather than the spirit or intellect

Example: ‘a crude surrender to animal lust’;

relating to or denoting the pole or extremity of an embryo that contains the more active cytoplasm in the early stages of development.

Animals (also called Metazoa) are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.