inanimate
/ɪnˈænɪmət/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.01 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
adj
Not animate.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body."
- "For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill"
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂enh₁-, inanimate, inanimātus, in-
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɪnˈænɪmət/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more inanimate (comparative)
most inanimate (superlative)
inanimates (plural)
inanimates (present, singular)
inanimating (participle, present)
inanimated (participle, past)
inanimated (past)