Definitions for inanimate

inanimate in·an·i·mate

Spelling: [in-an-uh-mit]
IPA: /ɪnˈæn ə mɪt/

Inanimate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in inanimate (aaeiimnnt).

Definitions for inanimate

adjective

  1. not animate; lifeless.
  2. spiritless; sluggish; dull.
  3. Linguistics. belonging to a syntactic category or having a semantic feature that is characteristic of words denoting objects, concepts, and beings regarded as lacking perception and volition (opposed to animate).

Origin of inanimate

From the Late Latin word inanimātus, dating back to 1555-65. See in-3, animate

Examples for inanimate

The fakir was in the bag into which he had been put, cold and inanimate.

Libra Born under the only inanimate sign symbol—the Scales—you can be said to quell your very human emotions.

All this is equally applicable to the materials of inanimate nature.

“Thank God for my computer,” says the star, who often films personal “video diaries” with her inanimate friend.

Firearms, after all, are inanimate objects, incapable of inflicting harm on their own initiative.

He glanced gravely at me and at the white, inanimate face of Cross.

Out of the inanimate rocks had sprung the marine plants—the seaweeds.

And Lara Stone's baby will not be named after a fruit or some other inanimate object.

She has been reduced to porter, to Sherpa, to something even less–some inanimate bit of set decoration.

He was just wood, inanimate and insensible, and there was still no sign.

Word Value for inanimate
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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