different between inanimate vs dismal
inanimate
English
Etymology
in- +? animate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?æn?m?t/
Adjective
inanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)
- Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
- Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
- (grammar) Not animate.
Synonyms
- (unable to move): immobile, motionless
- (not alive): non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate
Antonyms
- (grammar): animate
Translations
Noun
inanimate (plural inanimates)
- (rare) Something that is not alive.
Verb
inanimate (third-person singular simple present inanimates, present participle inanimating, simple past and past participle inanimated)
- (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
- 1621, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary
Anagrams
- Mantineia, amanitine, maintaine
Italian
Adjective
inanimate f pl
- feminine plural of inanimato
Latin
Adjective
inanim?te
- vocative masculine singular of inanim?tus
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dismal
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman dismal, from Old French (li) dis mals ("(the) bad days"), from Medieval Latin di?s (“day”) m?l? (“bad”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?zm?l/
- Rhymes: -?zm?l
Adjective
dismal (comparative more dismal, superlative most dismal)
- Disastrous, calamitous
- Disappointingly inadequate.
- Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
- Depressing, dreary, cheerless.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "dismal" is often applied: failure, performance, state, record, place, result, scene, season, year, economy, future, fate, weather, news, condition, history.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cheerless
Derived terms
- dismal science
Translations
Anagrams
- almids
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