Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subanimate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-an-i-mate
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Below the level of life or animacy; less than alive.

Example Sentences

"There were far-off, indistinct echoes of life, and subanimate mutterings, the slow respirations of the rocks, drinking air and oozing moisture through their sluggish pores, swelling and pushing against their straitening bonds of timber."
"[…] the vanguard of science may now have left atomistic mechanism behind and abandoned deterministic explanations of even the subanimate world, but general and humane culture are influenced more by the scientific culture of the age of Newton than […]"

Etymology

From sub- + animate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: sub

Questions

What does subanimate mean?: Below the level of life or animacy; less than alive.
Where does subanimate come from?: From sub- + animate.

How to pronounce subanimate

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