Synonyms for animal

noun

1. A mobile organism

   living thing, creature, human being, primate, mammal, beast, being, vertebrate, invertebrate, quadruped, biped, carnivore, herbivore, insectivore, scavenger, omnivore, a representative of the fauna.

2. A nonhuman creature

   creature, beast, beast of burden, brute, domestic animal, wild animal, lower animal, quadruped, beast of the field, creeping thing, varmint, pet, farm animal, dumb animal, wild thing, one of God's creatures, monster, critter*.

3. A brutish human

   brute, savage, monster; see beast 2.

modified

1. Referring to characteristics of the animal kingdom

   animalistic, bestial, beastly, swinish, brutish, wild, beastlike, feral, untamed, instinctual, zoological.

   Terms referring to specific animals include: vertebrate, invertebrate, mammalian, ruminant, ungulate, bovine, canine, equine, feline, leonine, lupine, vulpine, ursine, porcine, caprine, ovine, pachydermal, lagomorphic, rodent, marsupial, piscatorial, crustacean, cetacean, amphibian, avian, serpentine, ophidian, reptilian.

2. Referring to the bodily characteristics of humans

   corporeal, physical, bodily, muscular, fleshly, sensual, carnal, earthy, earthly, natural; see also sensual 2. See syn. study at sensual.

   Antonyms spiritual*, intellectual, supernatural.