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# [[lack|Lacking]] the [[quality]] or [[ability]] of [[motion]]; as ''an inanimate object''. |
# [[lack|Lacking]] the [[quality]] or [[ability]] of [[motion]]; as ''an inanimate object''. |
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# Not being, and never having been alive. |
# Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like [[human]]s and [[animal]]s. |
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* {{sense|unable to move}} {{l|en|immobile}}, {{l|en|motionless}} |
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* {{sense|not alive}} {{l|en|lifeless}}, {{l|en|insentient}}, {{l|en|insensate}} |
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# Something that is not alive. |
# {{lb|en|rare}} Something that is not alive. |
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Revision as of 21:13, 22 July 2020
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
inanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)
- Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
- 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.
Synonyms
- (unable to move): immobile, motionless
- (not alive): lifeless, insentient, insensate
Antonyms
- (grammar): animate
Translations
not mobile
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not alive
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in grammar
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Noun
inanimate (plural inanimates)
- (rare) Something that is not alive.
Verb
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- (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
Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
inanimate f pl
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) inanimāte
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