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Definition of animal:
- 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.
- Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
- One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
- Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
Synonyms:
living organism, wildcat, wight, swinish, puppet, fauna, beastly, body, wild, feral, carnal, spiritual, tool, bestial, savage, wolf, muscular, instinctual, intellectual, sentient being, earthly, animate being, bodily, fleshly, physical, supernatural, sensual, living creature, corporeal, natural, zoology, beastlike.
- animal (part of speech: noun)
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vulgar (part of speech: adjective)
- garish,
- degraded,
- scandalous,
- profane,
- chintzy,
- depraved,
- obscene,
- glaring,
- crass,
- earthy,
- base,
- salty,
- homespun,
- unpolished,
- tactless,
- sordid,
- revolting,
- low,
- idiomatic,
- barbaric,
- outlandish,
- common,
- sleazy,
- unbecoming,
- boorish,
- rank,
- brazen,
- ignominious,
- undignified,
- rude,
- colloquial,
- repulsive,
- raw,
- crude,
- graceless,
- tasteless,
- coarse-grained,
- inelegant,
- ill-bred,
- tawdry,
- unrefined,
- barnyard,
- broad,
- shameless,
- gross,
- coarse,
- unseemly,
- indelicate,
- in bad taste,
- clumsy,
- cockney,
- rough,
- philistine,
- cheap,
- offensive,
- vulgar,
- ignoble,
- gaudy,
- brutish
Usage examples:
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So he offered to sell the animal to anyone for $ 10. It would have been a bargain for Papa, because he knew exactly what to do to cure the horse.
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We had not gone far when Story called my attention to an animal standing on the fallen trunk of a tree, and told me to keep back the dogs, which would be sure to suffer if they were to attack it.