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semianimate
a. Partly, but not truly or wholly, alive.
Usage examples of "semianimate".
It must be just his semianimate control system parroting him and running the ship.
That was one of the reasons the new mind-units were evolved out of solid-state physics instead of following up the development of the older, semianimate brains such as the one aboard the ancient La Chasse Gailerie.