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Inanimate vs Dreary - What's the difference?

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Inanimate is a related term of dreary.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between inanimate and dreary

is that inanimate is (obsolete) to animate while dreary is (obsolete) grievous, dire; appalling.

As adjectives the difference between inanimate and dreary

is that inanimate is lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object while dreary is (obsolete) grievous, dire; appalling.

As a noun inanimate

is something that is not alive.

As a verb inanimate

is (obsolete) to animate .

inanimate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .
  • Not being, and never having been alive.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=5 citation , passage=I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.}}
  • (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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    dreary

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
  • Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
    • It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
    Once upon a midnight dreary , while I pondered, weak and weary...
  • * 1818 , , Volume 1, Chapter V:
    • It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.

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