Associations to the word «Inanimate»

Wiktionary

INANIMATE, adjective. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
INANIMATE, adjective. Not being, and never having been alive.
INANIMATE, adjective. (grammar) Not animate.
INANIMATE, noun. Something that is not alive.
INANIMATE, verb. (obsolete) To animate.

Dictionary definition

INANIMATE, adjective. Belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate".
INANIMATE, adjective. Not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects".
INANIMATE, adjective. Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead".

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