different between inanimate vs frigid

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fr?gidus (“cold”), from fr?ge? (“I am cold”), from fr?gus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sriges-, *sriHges-.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr?j'?d, IPA^(key): /?f??d??d/
• Rhymes: -?d??d

Adjective

frigid (comparative frigider or more frigid, superlative frigidest or most frigid)

1. Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
2. Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
3. (colloquial) Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.

Antonyms

• fervid

Related terms

• frigidity
• frigidly
• frigidness

Translations

References

• frigid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• frigid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Danish

Adjective

frigid

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Inflection

Related terms

• frigiditet

References

• “frigid” in Den Danske Ordbog

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?i??i?t]
• Hyphenation: fri?git

Adjective

frigid (comparative frigider, superlative am frigidesten)

1. Alternative form of frigide

Declension

Further reading

• “frigid” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French frigide, Latin frigidus. See also frig.

Adjective

frigid m or n (feminine singular frigid?, masculine plural frigizi, feminine and neuter plural frigide)

1. frigid

Declension

Related terms

• frigiditate
• frig