Inorganic
[ɪnɔː'gænɪk] or ['ɪnɔr'gænɪk]
Definition
(adj.) relating or belonging to the class of compounds not having a carbon basis; 'hydrochloric and sulfuric acids are called inorganic substances' .
(adj.) lacking the properties characteristic of living organisms .
Edited by Laurence--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances.
Typist: Murray
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unorganized.
Edited by Arnold
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inanimate, azoic, mineral
ANT:Organic, organized
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Definition
adj. without life or organisation as minerals &c.: of accidental origin not normally developed.—adv. Inorgan′ically.—n. Inorganisā′tion want of organisation.—adj. Inor′ganised same as Inorganic.—Inorganic chemistry a subdivision of chemistry made originally to designate the chemistry of purely mineral substances and retained still mainly as a matter of convenience.
Editor: Melinda
Examples
- In the interest s of his art the medical practitioner ransacked the resources of organic and inorganic nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In 1828 Wohler produced urea from inorganic substances, which was the first example of the synthetic production of organic compounds, and it was for many years the only product so formed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- His purpose was to comprehend, to define, to classify t he phenomena of organic and inorganic nature, to systematize the knowledge of his own time. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And she could see in his brown, gnome's eyes, the black look of inorganic misery, which lay behind all his small buffoonery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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