Word Meanings - INANIMATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Destitute of life; lacking animation; unanimated. Pope.
Related words: (words related to INANIMATED)
- LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
A want of luster. -- a. - ANIMATION
1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of - LACKBRAIN
One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak. - DESTITUTENESS
Destitution. Ash. - DESTITUTE
1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke. - LACKEY
An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar , the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored - LACKER
One who lacks or is in want. - LACK
1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. Chaucer. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. Shak. - DESTITUTELY
In destitution. - UNANIMATE
Unanimous. - LACKADAISY
An expression of languor. - LACKADAISICAL
Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv. - LACKADAY
Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise. - FRANKFORT BLACK
. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath. - CLACK
MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - FORSLACK
To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser. - INANIMATION
Want of animation; lifeless; dullness. - BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - MAGNASE BLACK
A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt. - BLACK FLAGS
An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their - AIR-SLACKED
Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime. - POLACK
A Polander. Shak. - SHOEBLACK
One who polishes shoes. - JET-BLACK
Black as jet; deep black. - BLACK-JACK
A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc. - BLACK LEAD
Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite. - REANIMATION
The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival. - BRUNSWICK BLACK
See BLACK - BLACK HOLE
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which - UNSLACKED
Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime.