Main entry: animate, sentient
Definition: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
Usage: the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage- T.E.Lawrence
Antonyms: insensate, insentient
Definition: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
Main entry: sentient
Definition: consciously perceiving
Usage: sentient of the intolerable load; a boy so sentient of his surroundings- W.A.White
Antonyms: unconscious
Definition: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead