inorganic

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ organic.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnɔɹˈɡænɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnɔːˈɡænɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ænɪk

Adjective

inorganic (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) Relating to a compound that does not contain carbon.
2. That does not originate in a living organism.
3. (Internet, marketing, of search results) Not generated by the ranking algorithms of a search engine, but deliberately by promotional techniques.

   Antonym: organic

4. (linguistics, obsolete) Irregular

Derived terms

• bioinorganic
• inorganically
• inorganic carbon
• inorganic chemist
• inorganic chemistry
• inorganic polymer
• inorganity

Translations

relating to a compound that does not contain carbon

• Albanian: joorganik (sq), inorganik (sq)
• Asturian: inorgánicu
• Belarusian: неаргані́чны (njearhaníčny)
• Bulgarian: неорганичен (neorganičen)
• Catalan: inorgànic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無機 / 无机 (zh) (wújī)

• Czech: anorganický
• Danish: uorganisk
• Dutch: anorganisch (nl)
• Esperanto: neorganika
• Finnish: epäorgaaninen (fi)
• French: inorganique (fr)
• Galician: inorgánico (gl)
• German: anorganisch (de)
• Hungarian: szervetlen (hu)
• Ido: neorganika (io)
• Irish: neamhorgánach
• Italian: inorganico (it)
• Japanese: 無機 (ja) (むき, muki)
• Kazakh: бейорганикалық (beiorganikalyq)
• Latvian: neorganisks
• Malay: tak organik
• Malayalam: അകാർബണിക (akāṟbaṇika)
• Manx: neuorgaanagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uorganisk

  Nynorsk: uorganisk

• Polish: nieorganiczny (pl), anorganiczny
• Portuguese: inorgânico (pt)
• Romanian: anorganic (ro)
• Russian: неоргани́ческий (ru) (neorganíčeskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: neo-organach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏норга̄нскӣ

  Roman: ȁnorgānskī (sh)

• Spanish: inorgánico
• Swedish: oorganisk (sv)
• Tagalog: ditaghayin, dihayin
• Turkish: inorganik (tr), anorganik (tr)
• Ukrainian: неоргані́чний (neorhaníčnyj)
• Welsh: anorganig (cy)

Noun

inorganic (plural inorganics)

1. (chemistry) An inorganic compound

See also

• organic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French inorganique.

Adjective

inorganic m or n (feminine singular inorganică, masculine plural inorganici, feminine and neuter plural inorganice)

1. inorganic

Declension

Declension of inorganic

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	inorganic		inorganică		inorganici	inorganice
	definite	inorganicul		inorganica		inorganicii	inorganicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	inorganic		inorganice		inorganici	inorganice
	definite	inorganicului		inorganicei		inorganicilor	inorganicelor