different between inanimate vs phlegmatic

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

• phlegmatick
• phlegmaticke
• phlegmatique

Etymology

From Old French fleumatique, from Latin phlegmaticus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (phlegmatikós), from ?????? (phlégma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl???mæt?k/
• Rhymes: -æt?k

Adjective

phlegmatic (comparative more phlegmatic, superlative most phlegmatic)

1. Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
   • 2013, A.O. Scott, “How It Looks to Think: Watch Her,” Rev. of Hannah Arendt, dir. by Margarethe von Trotta, New York Times 29 May 2013: C1. Print.

     Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.

2. (archaic) Abounding in phlegm.

3. Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.

Synonyms

• (calm and reasonable, tending not to get upset): apathetic, sluggish, cold-blooded, unflappable, stoic
• See also Thesaurus:calm

Coordinate terms

• choleric
• melancholic
• sanguine

Related terms

• phlegm
• phlegmatically

Translations

Noun

phlegmatic (plural phlegmatics)

1. One who has a phlegmatic disposition.

Translations