inanimate

English

Etymology

in- +‎ animate

Pronunciation

• IPA: /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.
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 5, 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.

Antonyms

• (grammar): animate

Translations

not mobile

Finnish: liikkumaton (fi)

Manx: neuannymagh (gv)

not alive

Finnish: eloton (fi) Russian: неживой (ru) (neživój)

Turkish: cansız (tr), ölü (tr)

in grammar

Czech: neživotný (cs) m. Finnish: eloton (fi) German: unbelebt (de) Polish: nieżywotny (pl)

Russian: неодушевлённый (ru) (neoduševljonnyj) Swedish: obesjälad (sv), livlös (sv) Turkish: cansız (tr)

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Estonian: elutu (et)

Noun

inanimate (plural inanimates)

1. Something that is not alive.

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Italian

Adjective

inanimate f. pl.

1. feminine plural form of inanimato

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Latin

Adjective

inanimāte

1. vocative masculine singular of inanimātus