Word Meanings - INANIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To animate. Donne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INANIMATE)

• Dead
• Defunct
• deceased
• departed
• gone
• inanimate
• lifeless
• insensible
• heavy
• unconscious
• dull
• spiritless
• cheerless
• deserted
• torpid
• still
• Frigid
• Cold
• passionless
• distant
• forbidding
• Inorganic
• Inanimate
• azoic
• mineral

Related words: (words related to INANIMATE)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• UNCONSCIOUS
  1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• FORBIDDANCE
  The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.
• DEFUNCTION
  Death. After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• DISTANTIAL
  Distant. More distantial from the eye. W. Montagu.
• STILLION
  A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
• INANIMATE
  To animate. Donne.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.