Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not animated; not possessed of life. Not enlivened; not having spirit; dull; inanimate.

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  • adjective Inanimate.

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  • adjective not animated or enlivened; dull

Etymologies

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un- +‎ animated

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Examples

  • It was probably the most unanimated crowd we had ever performed for, but there was good energy that day.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • It was probably the most unanimated crowd we had ever performed for, but there was good energy that day.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Does your cat live her life with Zenlike awareness or is she just a pleasantly-packaged pet with mechanical eyes set in an unanimated, furry face?

    Carolyn Bucior: Fur Will Fly at First Scientific Conference on Animal Consciousness Carolyn Bucior 2012

  • Does your cat live her life with Zenlike awareness or is she just a pleasantly-packaged pet with mechanical eyes set in an unanimated, furry face?

    Carolyn Bucior: Fur Will Fly at First Scientific Conference on Animal Consciousness Carolyn Bucior 2012

  • It was probably the most unanimated crowd we had ever performed for, but there was good energy that day.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • In the f.g. are Zan, Zu , Doc and Caveel; in the b.g., along with all the biotech stuff, a number of DROID blanks, i.e., bodies that are as yet unanimated, kind of like empty slates, waiting to be imprinted.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Steve Perry 2010

  •  I sitt unanimated, holding the hands of my bleeding words

    I will bury you. 2010

  • In the f.g. are Zan, Zu , Doc and Caveel; in the b.g., along with all the biotech stuff, a number of DROID blanks, i.e., bodies that are as yet unanimated, kind of like empty slates, waiting to be imprinted.

    Adventures in Comic Book Land Steve Perry 2010

  • Like it did recently after he bounced off a gigantic bed at a seaside hotel in California as I stood watching, my feet two unanimated slabs of flesh in magnetic shoes on a steel floor.

    Ted Goeglein: I Wanted My Money Back 2008

  • Annan had just had shoulder surgery, his arm was in a sling, and he seemed very unanimated, perhaps due to his medication.

    Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007

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