inanimate
Meanings
Plural: inanimates
Adjective
- belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things
- "the word `car' is inanimate"
- not endowed with life
- "the inorganic world is inanimate"
- "inanimate objects"
Adjective Satellite
- appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
- "an inanimate body"
Adj
- Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
- Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
- Not animate.
Noun
- Something that is not alive.
Verb
- To animate.
Origin / Etymology
Inherited from Middle English inanimat(e), from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus (“animated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + animate. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Synonyms
at rest, breathless, dull, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, impassive, inanimate, inert, insensate, insentient, lifeless, motionless, non-animate, non-living, nonliving, pulseless, rigid, sedent, sedentary, sessile, static, stationary, still, stock-still, stuck, torpid, unmovable, unmoveable, unmoved, unmoving
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
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