About The Word Inanimate
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Inanimate
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What's The Definition Of Inanimate?
[adj] appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"
[adj] not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [adj] (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" Synonyms | Synonyms for Inanimate: breathless | dead | nonconscious | nonliving | pulseless Related Terms | Find terms related to Inanimate: abiotic | animate | apathetic | asleep | asleep in Jesus | at rest | azoic | benumbed | bereft of life | blase | bored | breathless | called home | carrion | cold | common gender | croaked | dead | dead and gone | death-struck | debilitated | deceased | defunct | demised | departed | departed this life | destitute of life | done for | dopey | dormant | droopy | drugged | dull | dumb | enervated | exanimate | extinct | fallen | feminine | finished | food for worms | gender | gone | gone to glory | gone west | heavy | hebetudinous | immobile | inactive | inanimated | inert | insensate | insensible | insentient | jaded | lackadaisical | languid | languorous | late | late lamented | launched into eternity | leaden | lethargic | lifeless | listless | lumpish | martyred | masculine | moribund | motionless | mute | neuter | no more | nonconscious | nonliving | numb | passed on | phlegmatic | pooped | pushing up daisies | released | reposing | resting easy | sainted | sated | senseless | sleeping | sleepy | slow | sluggish | smitten with death | somnolent | soulless | spiritless | stagnant | stagnating | still | stillborn | stultified | supine | taken away | taken off | torpid | unanimated | unconscious | unfeeling | unmoving | vegetable | vegetative | wan | weary | with the Lord | with the saints | without life | without vital functions | world-weary See Also | Inanimate In Webster's Dictionary \In*an"i*mate\, v. t. [Pref. in- in (or intensively) +
animate.]
To animate. [Obs.] --Donne.
\In*an"i*mate\, a. [L. inanimatus; pref. in- not + animatus animate.] Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances. Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves. --Byron. Syn: Lifeless; dead; inert; inactive; dull; soulless; spiritless. See {Lifeless}. |
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