inanimate
English
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Middle English inanimat(e), from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus (“animated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + animate. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɪnˈænɪmət/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: in‧an‧i‧mate
Adjective
editinanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)
- Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
- Synonyms: immobile, motionless; see also Thesaurus:immobile, Thesaurus:stationary
- 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.
- Synonyms: non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate
- 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.
- Antonym: animate
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editnot mobile
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not alive
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Noun
editinanimate (plural inanimates)
- (rare) Something that is not alive.
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Latin inanimātus, the perfect passive participle of inanimō (“to animate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, into”) + animō (“to animate”); by surface analysis, in- + animate.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editinanimate (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
editItalian
editAdjective
editinanimate f pl
Anagrams
editLatin
editAdjective
editinanimāte
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