n. 1 creature, being, mammal, organism Scientists are unlikely to employ the popular division of all things into animal, vegetable, or mineral 2 beast, brute, savage, monster Think of the poor girl married to that animal!
adj. 3 zoological, zooid, animalistic The sponge is a member of the animal kingdom 4 physical, fleshly, sensual, gross, coarse, unrefined, uncultured, uncultivated, rude, carnal, crude, bestial, beastlike, subhuman His animal appetites occasionally got the better of him