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exanimate

/ɪɡˈzænɪmɪt/

exanimate adjective: lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.

Adjective

exanimate (comparative more exanimate, superlative most exanimate)

  1. Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
    • carckasses exanimate1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7
  2. Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively.
    • Pale […] wretch, exanimate by love.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    dejected

Verb

IPA/ɪɡˈzænɪmeɪt/

exanimate (third-person singular simple present exanimates, present participle exanimating, simple past and past participle exanimated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life.

exanimate meaning in Tamil

exanimate in Tamil

இறந்துபோன, உயிரற்ற, உற்சாகமற்ற

Synonyms of exanimate

Forms of exanimate

Adjective
comparativemore exanimate
superlativemost exanimate
Verb
third-person singular presentexanimates
present participleexanimating
past participleexanimated
pastexanimated

Origin of exanimate

From Latin exanimātus, perfect passive participle of exanimō (see ex-, -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin ex- + animō, from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about exanimate

What does exanimate mean?
Exanimate means lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
What is exanimate in Tamil?
Exanimate in Tamil is இறந்துபோன, உயிரற்ற, உற்சாகமற்ற. See Exanimate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is exanimate?
Exanimate can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce exanimate?
Exanimate is pronounced /ɪɡˈzænɪmɪt/.

Words near exanimate in the dictionary

  1. examsmanship
  2. exanewton
  3. exanewtons
  4. exanguination
  5. exanguious
  6. exanimate
  7. exanimated
  8. exanimates
  9. exanimating
  10. exanimation
  11. exanimous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exanimate (page history and authors); exanimate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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