inanimate
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmət/
Adjective

inanimate

  1. 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.
  2. Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
  3. (grammar) Not animate.
Synonyms Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “grammar”): animate
Translations Translations Translations Noun

inanimate (plural inanimates)

  1. (rare) Something that is not alive.
Etymology 2

From Latin inanimō; equivalent to .

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/
Verb

inanimate (inanimates, present participle inanimating; simple past and past participle inanimated)

  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



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