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Meaning of semianimate | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Partly, but not truly or wholly, alive.

not-comparable

Examples

“As the balance of power gradually tips in favor of blockage, the semianimate voice of the instrument fades into the mechanism of silence […]”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

semiannual semiannular semiapocryphal semiapologetic semiappressed semiaquatic