'Inanimate' definitions:
Definition of 'inanimate'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" [ant: animate]
adjective
Not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects" [syn: inanimate, nonliving, non- living] [ant: animate]
adjective
Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" [syn: breathless, inanimate, pulseless]
Definition of 'Inanimate'
From: GCIDE
- Inanimate \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. [1913 Webster]
- Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves. --Byron.
- Syn: Lifeless; dead; inert; inactive; dull; soulless; spiritless. See Lifeless. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Inanimate'
From: GCIDE
- Inanimate \In*an"i*mate\, v. t. [Pref. in- in (or intensively) + animate.] To animate. [Obs.] --Donne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inanimate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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