exanimate
English edit
Etymology edit
See ex- and Latin animus (“soul, life”).
Pronunciation edit
- Adjective
- Verb
Adjective edit
exanimate (comparative more exanimate, superlative most exanimate)
- Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
- carckasses exanimate
- Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively.
- 1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- Pale […] wretch, exanimate by love.
Synonyms edit
- (dispirited): dejected
Translations edit
lifeless; dead
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spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively
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Verb edit
exanimate (third-person singular simple present exanimates, present participle exanimating, simple past and past participle exanimated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Verb edit
exanimāte