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invital

invital adjective: not alive; lifeless.

Adjective

invital (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Not alive; lifeless.
    • The amoeba — a mere shapeless mass of moving sarcode — digests rapidly and constantly without a trace of organism! An organism when dead we assume to be chemically the same as the living organism, but we cannot prove it. An analysis of living protoplasm is impossible. That there is a force — an...1873, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review, volume 39, page 252

Origin of invital

From in- + vital.

Questions about invital

What does invital mean?
Invital means not alive; lifeless.
What part of speech is invital?
Invital is an adjective.

Words near invital in the dictionary

  1. invisiblizes
  2. invisiblizing
  3. invisibly
  4. inviso
  5. invitable
  6. invital
  7. invitate
  8. invitated
  9. invitates
  10. invitating
  11. invitation

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