Antonyms for in animate
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : in-an-uh-mit |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈæn ə mɪt |
- able
- active
- alert
- alive
- animate
- animated
- antique
- attentive
- awake
- aware
- being
- born
- busy
- caring
- concerned
- conscious
- continuing
- current
- decided
- early
- enduring
- energetic
- enthusiastic
- existent
- existing
- feeling
- full
- functioning
- future
- happy
- incomplete
- intended
- intentional
- interested
- knowing
- live
- lively
- living
- loving
- mobile
- moving
- old-fashioned
- on time
- operating
- operative
- organic
- potent
- present
- prompt
- punctual
- responsive
- sensitive
- spirited
- strong
- subsisting
- unfinished
- unfixed
- untired
- uplifted
- valid
- vivacious
- warm
- working
Definition of in animate
Origin :- early 15c., from Late Latin inanimatus "lifeless," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + animatus (see animation). The same word in 17c. also was a verb meaning "to infuse with life," from the other in- (see in- (2)).
- As in inanimate : adj not alive, not organic
- As in inert : adj not moving; lifeless
- As in inorganic : adj not organic
- As in late : adj dead
- As in lifeless : adj not living, not containing living things
- As in listless : adj spiritless, without energy
- As in motionless : adj calm, not moving
- As in spiritless : adj depressed
- As in unconscious : adj not awake; out cold
- As in unfeeling : adj hard-hearted, numb
- As in insensible : adj indifferent
- As in stock-still : adj motionless
- As in dead : adj no longer alive
- As in deceased : adj dead
- As in defunct : adj extinct, not functioning
Synonyms for in animate
- absent
- abstracted
- anesthetized
- apathetic
- apoplectic
- asleep
- at a standstill
- at rest
- azoic
- bare
- barren
- becalmed
- benumbed
- bereft of life
- bit the dust
- blacked out
- blah
- bloodless
- blue
- bombed
- bored
- bought the farm
- breathless
- broken
- brutal
- brute
- buried
- bygone
- cadaverous
- callous
- cantankerous
- careless
- cast down
- checked out
- churlish
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- cold-hearted
- comatose
- crotchety
- cruel
- cut off
- dead
- dead to the world
- deadened
- deadlocked
- deathly
- deceased
- defunct
- dejected
- departed
- desert
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dispirited
- done for
- dopey
- dormant
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- down the drain
- downcast
- downhearted
- draggy
- dreamy
- drippy
- droopy
- drowsy
- dull
- easygoing
- empty
- energyless
- enervated
- entranced
- erased
- erstwhile
- ex-
- exacting
- exanimate
- expired
- extinct
- faint
- feeling no pain
- feelingless
- finished
- firm
- fixed
- flat
- flat tire
- flattened
- former
- frozen
- gave up the ghost
- gone
- gone to meet maker
- gone to reward
- gradual
- had it
- halted
- hard
- hardened
- heartless
- heavy
- heedless
- icy
- idle
- immobile
- immotile
- impassive
- imperceivable
- imperceptible
- impotent
- in a trance
- inactive
- inanimate
- inappreciable
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- inert
- inhuman
- inoperative
- inorganic
- insensate
- insensible
- insensitive
- insentient
- insouciant
- invalid
- iron-hearted
- kaput
- kicked the bucket
- knocked
- lackadaisical
- lackluster
- lagging
- laid-back
- languid
- languishing
- languorous
- late
- lazy
- leaden
- lethargic
- lifeless
- limp
- liquidated
- listless
- lost
- low
- lukewarm
- lymphatic
- manmade
- melancholic
- melancholy
- merciless
- mineral
- mopish
- mopy
- mortified
- motionless
- neutral
- no more
- nonanimal
- nonexistent
- nonvegetable
- not existing
- not living
- not natural
- numb
- obdurate
- oblivious
- obsolete
- offed
- old
- on the canvas
- once
- onetime
- out
- out cold
- out like a light
- out of commission
- out of it
- out of one's misery
- palsied
- paralyzed
- passed away
- passed on
- passed out
- passive
- past
- perished
- petrified
- phlegmatic
- pitiless
- powerless
- preceding
- previous
- pushing up daisies
- put away
- quiescent
- quiet
- quondam
- raving
- reposing
- resting in peace
- ruthless
- sensationless
- senseless
- severe
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow
- sluggard
- sluggish
- slumberous
- sometime
- soulless
- spellbound
- spiritless
- stable
- stagnant
- stalled
- standing
- static
- stationary
- steadfast
- sterile
- stiff
- still
- stock-still
- stolid
- stony
- stunned
- stupefied
- stupid
- subdued
- submissive
- supine
- surly
- swooning
- tame
- thick-skinned
- thoughtless
- torpid
- tough
- tranced
- transfixed
- unamiable
- unanimated
- unaware
- uncaring
- uncompassionate
- unconcerned
- unconscious
- uncordial
- unemotional
- unenthusiastic
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- uninhabited
- unintelligible
- uninterested
- unkind
- unmindful
- unmovable
- unmoved
- unmoving
- unreactive
- unresponsive
- unsusceptible
- unsympathetic
- vacant
- vanished
- waste
- wasted
- zero
- zonked
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