inanimateとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈænɪmət/

形容詞

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, especially not like humans and animals.
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 5, in 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.

同意語

• (unable to move): immobile, motionless
• (not alive): non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate

反意語

• (grammar): animate

名詞

inanimate (複数形 inanimates)

1. (まれに) Something that is not alive.

動詞

inanimate (三人称単数 現在形 inanimates, 現在分詞 inanimating, 過去形および過去分詞形 inanimated)

1. (obsolete) To animate.
   • 1621, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary

     For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill

アナグラム

• Mantineia, amanitine, maintaine

Latin

形容詞

inanimāte

1. vocative masculine singular of inanimātus