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Definition: Exanimate |
ExanimateAdjective1. 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: ExanimateSynonym: lifeless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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 exânime, dar um exemplo. (various references) 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) безжизненный (anaemic, azoic, bloodless, dead alive, inanimate, languid, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated), без признаков жизни. (various references) bezživotan. (various references) exánime (lifeless, spiritless), inanimado (inanimate, lifeless). (various references) 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) застиглий, бездиханний (breathless, lifeless, spiritless). (various references) không có tinh thần (expressionless, spiritless), chết (aloft, defunct, mortal), bất động không hoạt động, đờ đẫn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Exanimate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: examinatam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 61 6E 69 6D 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- .- -. .. -- .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01100001 01101110 01101001 01101101 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x a n i m a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0061 006E 0069 006D 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)399067807579678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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