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Inanimate Definition

inanimate

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English

Etymology

in- +‎ animate

Pronunciation

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

Noun

inanimate (plural inanimates)

  1. Something that is not alive.

Italian

Adjective

inanimate f. pl.

  1. feminine plural form of inanimato

Latin

Adjective

inanimāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of inanimātus

 

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