inanimate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmət/
inanimate
- Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
- 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.
- (grammar) Not animate.
- (unable to move) immobile, motionless
- (not alive) non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate
- (antonym(s) of “grammar”): animate
- German: bewegungslos, unbewegbar
- Russian: неподви́жный
- Spanish: inanimado
- French: inanimé
- German: unbelebt
- Russian: неодушевлённый
inanimate (plural inanimates)
- (rare) Something that is not alive.
From Latin inanimō; equivalent to
- IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/
inanimate (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
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