Inanimate

Quick meaning: Inanimate is an adjective meaning Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.

Meaning

Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.

More Meanings

1. Not alive, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
2. (grammar) Not animate.
3. (rare) Something that is not alive.
4. (obsolete) To animate.

Example Sentences

Retired when her position was dissolved due to advances in inanimate automation.

For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill

I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.

The love of the inanimate is a general feeling. True, it makes no return of affection, neither does it disappoint it; its associations are from our thoughts and emotions.

Word Forms

• inanimates
• inanimating
• inanimated

Synonyms for inanimate

Depending on context, synonyms include immobile, motionless, fixed, immotile, immovable, inert.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonconscious, nonliving, dead, breathless, pulseless, lifeless.

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