inanimate
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inanimate¹
- /ɪnˈænɪmət/ UK
Where it comes from
Inherited 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).
adjective more inanimate · most inanimate
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Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
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.
Similar: immobile, motionless, fixed, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert, lifeless, sessile, static, rigid, stationary
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Not alive, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
Similar: non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate
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Not animate.
Opposite: animate
noun inanimates
- Something that is not alive.
inanimate²
- /ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/
Where it comes from
Borrowed 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.
verb inanimates · inanimating · inanimated
- To animate. For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: nonconscious, nonliving, dead, breathless, pulseless, lifeless, non-living, inorganic, insentient, inert, unanimated, static, insensate, unmoving, senseless, motionless
Translations
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adj not alive
| Español | inanimado |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 無生命 /无生命 wúshēngmìng |
| हिन्दी | निर्जीव nirjīv |
| Deutsch | leblos |
| Ελληνικά | άψυχος ápsychos |
| Română | inanimat, neanimat |
| Русский | неживо́й neživój, безду́шный bezdúšnyj, безжи́зненный bezžíznennyj |
adj not mobile
| Español | inanimado |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | bewegungslos, unbewegbar |
| Русский | неподви́жный nepodvížnyj |
| العربية | جَامِد jāmid |
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