inanimate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈænɪmət/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that is not alive. rare
动词 v.
  1. To animate. obsolete
    — For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill
形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Not animate.

词形变化

more inanimate comparative most inanimate superlative inanimates plural inanimates present,singular,third-person inanimating participle,present inanimated participle,past inanimated past

词汇关系

衍生词
inanimacy inanimately inanimateness inanimation
相关词
deanimate

词源

词源 1
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).
词源 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.
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