inanimate
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English inanimate, from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
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], 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]:
- I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
- (grammar) Not animate.
SynonymsEdit
- (unable to move): immobile, motionless
- (not alive): non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate
AntonymsEdit
- (grammar): animate
TranslationsEdit
not mobile
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not alive
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in grammar
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NounEdit
inanimate (plural inanimates)
- (rare) Something that is not alive.
Etymology 2Edit
Latin inanimō; equivalent to in- (intensive) + animate
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
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
- 1621, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
inanimate f pl
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LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
inanimāte