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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmət/
• ハイフネーション: in‧an‧i‧mate

形容詞

inanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)

1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.

   Synonyms: immobile, motionless; see also Thesaurus:immobile, Thesaurus:stationary

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 172:

     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.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Toontown: Corporate Clash Development Team, Manager Profile of the Mouthpiece‎:

     Retired when her position was dissolved due to advances in inanimate automation.

2. Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.

   Synonyms: non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 5, in Frankenstein‎, archived from the original on 31 October 2011:

     I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.

3. (grammar) Not animate.

   Antonym: animate

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名詞

inanimate (plural inanimates)

1. (rare) Something that is not alive.

語源 2

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.

発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/

動詞

inanimate (third-person singular simple present inanimates, present participle inanimating, simple past and past participle 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