animal

noun10

1. •
   a creature of any kind other than a human
2. •
   A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia that is usually mobile, with cells that are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms.

   • Humans, like other animals, need air to breathe and food to eat.
3. •
   A higher animal; an animal related to humans.

   • When he's hungry my toddler opens his mouth like an animal instead of asking us to feed him.
4. •
   A warm-blooded animal; a mammal or bird.
5. •
   A non-human mammal.

   • I spent my summer studying the animals and birds of the two islands.
6. •
   (informal) A tetrapod; a land-dwelling nonhuman vertebrate.
7. •
   (informal) A person of a particular type specified by an adjective.

   • He's a political animal.
8. •
   (offensive, figurative) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

   • My students are animals.
9. •
   (informal) Matter, thing.
10. •
    (offensive, figurative) A person who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.

adjective4

1. •
   Of or relating to animals.

   • The season has been most unfavourable to animal life; and I, who am merely animal, have suffered much by it. — 1783
2. •
   Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

   • animal passions
3. •
   Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.

   • To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion. — 2003
4. •
   (Ireland, slang) Excellent.

noun1

1. •
   (slang) A fan of Kesha, an American singer.