inanimate adj

1 belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" [ant: animate]

2 not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [syn: nonliving, dead] [ant: animate]

3 appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" [syn: breathless, pulseless]

English

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈænɪmət/

Adjective

1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
2. Not being, and never having been alive.
3. Not animate.

Antonyms

• (grammar): animate

Translations

• Finnish: eloton
• Estonian: elutu

Italian

Adjective

inanimate

1. Feminine plural form of inanimato

Animate means that which lives or moves, as opposed to inanimate, that which doesn't live or move.It may refer to:

• Animate, a Japanese retail chain
• Animation, an optical illusion of motion created by the consecutive display of images of static elements
• Something that has life
• Animacy, a grammatical category, usually of nouns
• Animate and inanimate, in possession

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