inanimate

English

Etymology

in- +‎ animate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈænɪmət/

Adjective

inanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)

1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
2. 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.

3. (grammar) Not animate.

Synonyms

• (unable to move): immobile, motionless
• (not alive): lifeless, insentient, insensate

Antonyms

• (grammar): animate

Translations

not mobile

• Bulgarian: неподви́жен (bg) (nepodvížen)
• Catalan: inanimat
• Finnish: liikkumaton (fi) (lacking the quality); liikkumiskyvytön (lacking the ability)
• Galician: inanimado
• German: bewegungslos, unbewegbar
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄψυχος (ápsukhos)

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• Hungarian: élettelen (hu)
• Manx: neuannymagh
• Russian: неподви́жный (ru) (nepodvížnyj)
• Spanish: inanimado (es)
• Turkish: hareket edemeyen

not alive

• Belarusian: нежывы́ (nježyvý), бязду́шны (bjazdúšny)
• Bulgarian: безду́шен (bg) (bezdúšen), безжи́знен (bg) (bezžíznen)
• Catalan: inanimat
• Finnish: eloton (fi)
• Galician: inanimado
• German: leblos (de)
• Greek: άψυχος (el) (ápsychos)

  Ancient: ἄψυχος (ápsukhos)

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• Hungarian: élettelen (hu)
• Latin: inanimus
• Pashto: بې سا (ps) (be sâ)
• 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

• Belarusian: неадушаўлёны (njeadušaŭljóny), нежывы́ (nježyvý)
• Bulgarian: неодушеве́н (bg) (neoduševén)
• Czech: neživotný m
• Finnish: eloton (fi)
• Galician: inanimado
• German: unbelebt (de)
• Hungarian: élettelen (hu)
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• 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

inanimate (plural inanimates)

1. (rare) Something that is not alive.

Verb

1. (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

• Mantineia, amanitine, maintaine

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Italian

Adjective

inanimate f pl

1. feminine plural of inanimato

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) inanimāte

1. vocative masculine singular of inanimātus