inanimate in English dictionary

  • inanimate

    Meanings and definitions of "inanimate"

    • Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
    • Not being, and never having been alive.
    • (grammar) Not animate.
    • Something that is not alive.
    • adjective
      Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
    • adjective
      Not being, and never having been alive.
    • adjective
      (grammar)
      Not animate.
    • noun
      Something that is not alive.
    • verb
      (obsolete)
      To animate.
    • not mobile
    • not alive
    • in grammar
    • Which is not, and has never been, a living organism.
    • adjective
      appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"
    • adjective
      belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate"
    • adjective
      not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"

    Synonyms of "inanimate" in English dictionary

    dead, breathless, nonliving are the top synonyms of "inanimate" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "inanimate" in English dictionary

    animate is the antonym of "inanimate" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of inanimate

    • inanimate ( comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)
    • inanimate ( plural  inanimates)
    • inanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)
    • inanimate (plural inanimates)
    • inanimate (third-person singular simple present inanimates, present participle inanimating, simple past and past participle inanimated)
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