different between inanimate vs apathetic

English

Etymology

in- +? animate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?æn?m?t/

Adjective

inanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)

1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
2. Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
3. (grammar) Not animate.

Synonyms

• (unable to move): immobile, motionless
• (not alive): non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate

Antonyms

• (grammar): animate

Translations

Noun

inanimate (plural inanimates)

1. (rare) Something that is not alive.

Verb

inanimate (third-person singular simple present inanimates, present participle inanimating, simple past and past participle inanimated)

1. (obsolete) To animate.
   • 1621, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary

     For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill

Anagrams

• Mantineia, amanitine, maintaine

Italian

Adjective

inanimate f pl

1. feminine plural of inanimato

Latin

Adjective

inanim?te

1. vocative masculine singular of inanim?tus

English

Alternative forms

• apathetical

Etymology

apathy +? -etic

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æp.????t.?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

apathetic (comparative more apathetic, superlative most apathetic)

1. Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion

   Synonyms: passionless, indifferent

2. Of, or pertaining to apatheism.

Synonyms

• incurious, indifferent, impassive
• See also: Thesaurus:calm

Related terms

• apatheism
• apatheist

Translations

References

• apathetic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.