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Exanimate

Definition: Exanimate

Exanimate

Adjective

1. Deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "exanimate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonym: Exanimate

Synonym: lifeless (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Exanimate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Death

Adjective: dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life. Verb: dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.

Inactivity

Indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish; exanimate, soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: Exanimate

Language Translations for "exanimate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pafrymë (breathless, puffed, winded), i fikur (dead, exhausted, extinguished, switched off, undone). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отчаян (agonized, despairing, desperate, distressed, downcast, down-hearted, last ditch, lost, miserable), бездушен (heartless, indurate, niminy-piminy, soulless, spiritless, toneless, torpid, unanimated, unsympathetic). (various references)

   

Czech

  

bezživotný. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مرده (Dead, Defunct, Extinct, Vapid), کسل (Weary), جامد (Inorganic, Insensitive, Rigid), بیجان (Inanimate, Inert), بیروح (Arid, Inert, Meek, Pedestrian, Tame, Vapid). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άθυμοσ (crestfallen, depressed, Moody, mopish, sad, spiritless, sulky, vaporish), άψυχοσ (inanimate, insentient, lifeless, soulless). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

élettelen (breathless, glassy, inanimate, inert, inorganic, lifeless). (various references)

   

Italian

  

esanime (lifeless). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exanimateay

   

Portuguese

  

exânime, dar um exemplo. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

mort (breathless, cold, dead, dead and gone, dead beat, deceased, defunct, dummy, extinct, gone, in the dust, lifeless), lipsit de vioiciune, de elan. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

безжизненный (anaemic, azoic, bloodless, dead alive, inanimate, languid, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated), без признаков жизни. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bezživotan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

exánime (lifeless, spiritless), inanimado (inanimate, lifeless). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), ölü (carcass, casualty, corpse, dead, deceased, defunct, inanimate, late, lifeless, stiff, stone-dead, the dead). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

застиглий, бездиханний (breathless, lifeless, spiritless). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không có tinh thần (expressionless, spiritless), chết (aloft, defunct, mortal), bất động không hoạt động, đờ đẫn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Exanimate

Misspellings

"Exanimate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: examinatam. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Exanimate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-m-n-t-x"

-2 letters: amentia, animate, emanate, enemata, etamine, examine, manatee, matinee, taeniae, taximan, taximen.

-3 letters: anemia, axeman, axemen, emetin, etamin, examen, inmate, meanie, taenia, tamein, taxeme, taxman, taxmen, teniae.

-4 letters: amain, ament, amine, amnia, anima, anime, antae, atman, axite, axman, axmen, eaten, enate, enema, entia, exine, manat, mania, manta, matin, meant, menta, minae, tenia, tinea, xenia.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-m-n-t-x"
 

+3 letters: exanthematic.

 

+4 letters: reexamination.

 

+5 letters: reexaminations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Exanimate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 78 61 6E 69 6D 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    .-    -.    ..    --    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01111000 01100001 01101110 01101001 01101101 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#120 &#97 &#110 &#105 &#109 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0061 006E 0069 006D 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

399067807579678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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