Subanimate

Quick meaning: Subanimate is an adjective meaning Below the level of life or animacy; less than alive.

Meaning

Below the level of life or animacy; less than alive.

Example Sentences

There were far-off, indistinct echoes of life, and subanimate mutterings, the slow respirations of the rocks, drinking air and oozing moisture through their sluggish pores, swelling and pushing against their straitening bonds of timber.

[…] the vanguard of science may now have left atomistic mechanism behind and abandoned deterministic explanations of even the subanimate world, but general and humane culture are influenced more by the scientific culture of the age of Newton than […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exanimate, subhuman, underanimated, lifeless, subintellectual, liveless.

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