semianimate

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ animate

Adjective

semianimate (not comparable)

  1. Partly, but not truly or wholly, alive.
    • 2009, Lawrence Kramer, Why Classical Music Still Matters:
      As the balance of power gradually tips in favor of blockage, the semianimate voice of the instrument fades into the mechanism of silence […]
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