anima-, anim- +

In Jung’s terminology, the soul, that part of the psyche that is directed inwardly and is in touch with the unconscious; the anima is contrasted with the persona, which is the outer attitude or outer character.

1. Strong criticism; to pass criticism or censure on; to speak out against.
2. A critical comment, or comments; especially, those reproaching, disgracing, blaming, criticizing, rebuking, or bringing shame on someone.

1. Being critical, censuring, or making a censorious comment.
2. Critical or characterized by disapproval.

The state or quality of being animadversive or a severely critical or censorious remark.

1. To remark unfavorably or to comment critically about; usually, with strong disapproval.
2. To turn the mind or attention to, to pay attention to, or to observe.
3. Etymology: from Latin animadvertere, "to notice, to pay attention to", from animus, "mind" + advertere, "to turn toward, to turn to"; from ad-, "to" + vertere, "to turn".

Someone who comments unfavorably or critically about someone or something: "This animadverter was very critical about his poor use of English and misinterpretation of vocabulary."

1. An organism of the kingdom Animalia, distinguished from plants by certain characteristics, as the power of locomotion, fixed structure and limited growth, and nonphotosynthetic metabolism.
2. A living organism that is distinguished from plants by independent movement and responsive sense organs.
3. A living being; a member of the higher of the two series of organized beings, of which the typical forms are endowed with life, sensation, and voluntary motion; but of which the lowest forms are hardly distinguishable from the lowest vegetable forms by any more certain marks than their evident relationship to other animal forms, and thus to the animal series as a whole rather than to the vegetable series.
4. Any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli: some classification schemes also include protozoa and certain other single-celled eukaryotes that have motility and animallike nutritional modes.
5. In common usage: one of the lower animals; a brute, or beast, as distinguished from mankind.

Often restricted by the uneducated to quadrupeds; and familiarly applied especially to such as are used by man, as a horse, ass, or dog.

An older definition from the 1755 Dictionary of the English Language

1. An animal is a living creature, corporeal, distinct, on the one side, from pure spirit, on the other, from mere matter.
2. Animals are such beings, which, besides the power of growing, and producing their like, as plants and vegetables have, are endowed also with sensation and spontaneous motion.

A two-footed animal without feathers.

A Latinized form of Plato's definition of mankind.

That branch of agriculture specializing in the breeding, raising, and care of farm animals.

1. An animal so small as to be visible only with the aid of the microscope.
2. A microscopic or minute organism, as an amoeba or paramecium, usually regarded as an animal.

A theory that seeks to explain physiological or pathological phenomena by the agency of animalcules; such as: that they are the germs of life and that they are the cause of diseases.

The growing, or rearing, of animals as a branch of the food industry.

The growing of animals for food production.

1. Preoccupation with physical rather than spiritual needs.
2. The theory that human beings are driven by physical appetites rather than spiritual needs.

A believer in animalism or someone who has a greater interest in physical rather than in spiritual needs.