Adjective: inanimate in'a-nu-mut
- Not endowed with life
"inanimate objects"; "the inorganic world is inanimate";
- nonliving, non-living
- Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
"an inanimate body";
- breathless, pulseless
- (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things
"the word ‘car’ is inanimate"
See also: aliveness, animateness, dead, liveness, nonconscious
Antonym: animate
Encyclopedia: Inanimate