Pronunciations
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/ˌʌn.əˈlaɪv/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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Adjective
Not alive; dead or inanimate.
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Near-synonym: nonlive
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John Sheldon laid down Sheilah ' s hand beside her on the bed , as if it had been a book , or something unalive, and took out of his bag near by an accessory that was almost as much a part of him as his glasses.
Often her anxiety will contribute toward making the child afraid of life and attracted to that which is unalive.
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Yellow Kang the last believed unalive. Reason not known.
She was amazed that he wasn't changed , that he wasn't hurt , or perhaps utterly unalive , murdered .
I wait for them to droop as in a natural cycle. But they are stubbornly unalive and therefore unwilting.
We don't experience a corpse as just an object; we experience it as an object that was once alive, but which no longer is. We experience it as "unalive" (Bt, 282).
Lacking vivacity and liveliness; dull or sterile.
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Rebecca despises her professors because they cannot think as clearly as she can, cannot argue as well as she can, and are tired and dowdy and unalive.
The silent city asleep at our back , joyless and unalive.
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No, medicine is not an art , it is a science, but a mechanistic, unalive one.
No amount of psychoanalytic interpretation will have an effect if the therapeutic atmosphere is heavy , unalive, and boring .
SLS seems to me not so much moral or immoral as simply a caricature; not admirable or deplorable, but absurd . . . . I found ( SLS ) hollow , unproductive , unalive , and above all stagy: not cinematic.
Our perception labels it as negative, just like our minds have been trained to accept only the clinical and unreal, the sterile and unalive, the prepackaged and filtered.
Lacking energy and feeling; passionless; mechanical.
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Rather be unhappy , and know it , than unalive, and not know it .
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But now these symptoms which seemed to be bad and inimical , namely , this anxiety or guilt , prove themselves to be helpful and friendly, for they intrude themselves in order to bring healing by awakening this living yet unalive person.
If I feel placid or unalive must I feign excitement?
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She made him look impetuous, excitable; he made her seem cold, unalive.
Fromm ( 1968 ) refers to this as the spectre of a mechanized society in which human beings are slowly being transformed into the mechanical thing which is the society - passive, automatic, unfeeling, run by computers, unalive, a product of conditioning.
Lacking a fulfilling life; meaningless.
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In one rather poignant moment she reveals this predicament with her husband : if she has emasculated him throughout the years , Willie , in his own passive way , has made her feel similarly unalive: Was I ever lovable ?
And for the past six months I have been separated from my writing, and I have been nothing, or I have been walking about unalive, some indistinct shadow in a nightmare of the universe.
It is directly related, however, to being and non-being, a relation which suggests that being is defined by work if without a job one becomes "unalive".
Lacking consciousness; unresponsive, indifferent or oblivious.
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We are not unalive to the gravity of the problem of unemployment but we want co-operation here also, and we believe that , if we receive it , hundreds of young men who are now swelling the ranks of the unemployed , may achieve self-support in a happy, healthy and independent life.
The realism was largely mere recoil , by a man unalive to how beer and a ribald joke can carry the common man through bibulation ; but the hunger of the mind was a very positive thing, active in him and in many of his most remarkable characters.
Next day Tappan was not unalive to the changing character of the forest.
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If ... the universe is unalive and indifferent , I will hope and work for something in myself quite different from what I will seek if the universe is laden with mind and life .
How unalive we are, how unincarnated we are, reveals itself as unresponsiveness, ungracefulness, and restricted bodily mobility.
Noun
One who is unalive.
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Most people are the unalives the notalives, the impersons, existing in an unworld of unlove and unbeing.
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The very latest of Mr. Cummings's new poems are fixed in rigid attitudes of youth, which now seem to show signs of weariness, caused by the strain of a prolonged defiance against "the sweet&aged people who rule this world," against the “unhearts,” the “unminds,” the “unalives."
Verb
To make unalive; to kill, especially oneself; to commit suicide.
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Jeffrey Epstein is thought to have unalived himself, but Tucker Carlson calls this position into question.
He “unalives” bad guys, sometimes for free, and this gives him a sense of purpose, even in an absurd world.
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Or does anyone know how to stop Broly without unaliving him?
"We are going to 'unalive' them once again,” said Yukt laughing and the men looked at him like he was crazy.
Sharing just how awkward she felt, Rara, who also has her own YouTube channel, joked she wanted to "unalive" herself.
Bro, I was sticking up for you. You better top your coolant up or you're gonna unalive your engine.
I'm really sorry, but I have to un-alive you and stuff.
To die.
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Carl sighs, and ironically wishes to unalive out loud.