inanimate
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ɪnˈænɪmət/ / /ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/
adj
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English inanimat(e), from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus (“animated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + animate. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
- Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
“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.”
“Retired when her position was dissolved due to advances in inanimate automation.”
- Not alive, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
“I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.”
- Not animate.
noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English inanimat(e), from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus (“animated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + animate. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
- Something that is not alive.
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inanimātus, the perfect passive participle of inanimō (“to animate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, into”) + animō (“to animate”); by surface analysis, in- + animate.
- To animate.
“For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill”