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Unanimated vs Inanimate - What's the difference?

unanimated | inanimate |

As adjectives the difference between unanimated and inanimate

is that unanimated is inanimate while inanimate is lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.

As a noun inanimate is

something that is not alive.

As a verb inanimate is

to animate.

unanimated

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Inanimate.
  • Not animated; lacking vivacity.

    • 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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    • , 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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