inanimate

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English inanimate, from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɪnˈænɪmət/
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Adjective edit

inanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)

Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 172:
  The love of the inanimate is a general feeling. True, it makes no return of affection, neither does it disappoint it; its associations are from our thoughts and emotions.
Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 5, in Frankenstein‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 October 2011:
  I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
(grammar) Not animate.

Synonyms edit

(unable to move): immobile, motionless
(not alive): non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate

Antonyms edit

(antonym(s) of "grammar"): animate

Related terms edit

deanimate

Translations edit

not mobile

Bulgarian: неподви́жен (bg) (nepodvížen)
Catalan: inanimat (ca)
Finnish: liikkumaton (fi) (lacking the quality); liikkumiskyvytön (lacking the ability)
Galician: inanimado (gl)
German: bewegungslos (de), unbewegbar (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ἄψυχος (ápsukhos)
Hungarian: élettelen (hu)
Manx: neuannymagh
Old English: unstyriende
Russian: неподви́жный (ru) (nepodvížnyj)
Spanish: inanimado (es)
Turkish: hareket edemeyen

not alive

Armenian: անշունչ (hy) (anšunčʿ)
Belarusian: нежывы́ (nježyvý), бязду́шны (be) (bjazdúšny)
Bulgarian: безду́шен (bg) (bezdúšen), безжи́знен (bg) (bezžíznen)
Catalan: inanimat (ca)
Dutch: levenloos (nl)
Esperanto: senviva
Finnish: eloton (fi)
Galician: inanimado (gl)
German: leblos (de)
Greek: άψυχος (el) (ápsychos)
Ancient: ἄψυχος (ápsukhos)
Hungarian: élettelen (hu)
Latin: inanimus (la)
Old English: līflēas
Pashto: بې سا (ps) (be sâ)
Romanian: inanimat (ro), neanimat (ro)
Russian: неживо́й (ru) (neživój), безду́шный (ru) (bezdúšnyj), безжи́зненный (ru) (bezžíznennyj)
Spanish: inanimado (es)
Turkish: cansız (tr), ölü (tr)
Ukrainian: неживи́й (nežyvýj), безду́шний (uk) (bezdúšnyj)

in grammar

Armenian: անշունչ (hy) (anšunčʿ)
Belarusian: неадушаўлёны (njeadušaŭljóny), нежывы́ (nježyvý)
Bulgarian: неодушеве́н (bg) (neoduševén)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無生的／无生的 (wúshēng de)
Czech: neživotný (cs) m
Dutch: onbezield (nl)
Finnish: eloton (fi)
French: inanimé (fr)
Galician: inanimado (gl)
German: unbelebt (de)
Hungarian: élettelen (hu)
Japanese: 無生の (むせいの, musei-no)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: амьгүй (amʹgüj)

Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠢ
ᠦᠭᠡᠶ (ami ügey)
Pashto: بې سا (ps) (be sâ)
Polish: nieżywotny
Russian: неодушевлённый (ru) (neoduševljónnyj), неживо́й (ru) (neživój) (colloquial)
Swedish: obesjälad, livlös (sv)
Turkish: cansız (tr)
Ukrainian: неживи́й (nežyvýj), неісто́та f (neistóta) (noun)

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Noun edit

inanimate (plural inanimates)

(rare) Something that is not alive.

Etymology 2 edit

Latin inanimō; equivalent to in- (intensive) +‎ animate

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/

Verb edit

inanimate (third-person singular simple present inanimates, present participle inanimating, simple past and past participle inanimated)

(obsolete) To animate.
- 1621, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary:
  For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill

Anagrams edit

Mantineia, amanitine, maintaine

Italian edit

Adjective edit

inanimate f pl

feminine plural of inanimato

Anagrams edit

amanitine

Latin edit

Adjective edit

inanimāte

vocative masculine singular of inanimātus