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Inanimate vs Exanimate - What's the difference?

inanimate | exanimate |

As adjectives the difference between inanimate and exanimate

is that inanimate is lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object while exanimate is lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.

As verbs the difference between inanimate and exanimate

is that inanimate is to animate while exanimate is to deprive of animation or of life.

As a noun inanimate

is something that is not alive.

inanimate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .
  • Not being, and never having been alive.
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  • (grammar) Not animate.

    • Antonyms

    * (grammar) animate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is not alive.

    • Verb

    (inanimat)
  • (obsolete) To animate.
    • (John Donne)
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    exanimate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
  • * Spenser
    • carcasses exanimate
  • Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively.
  • * Thomson
    • Pale wretch, exanimate by love.

    Synonyms

    *(dispirited) dejected

    Verb

    (exanimat)
  • (obsolete) To deprive of animation or of life.

    • Anagrams

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