inanimate

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmət/

Adjective

inanimate

1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
2. Not being, and never having been alive.
3. (grammar) Not animate.

Synonyms

• (not alive) lifeless

Antonyms

• (grammar) animate

Translations

• German: bewegungslos, unbewegbar
• Russian: неподви́жный
• Spanish: inanimado

Translations

• German: leblos
• Russian: неживо́й
• Spanish: inanimado

Translations

• German: unbelebt
• Russian: неодушевлённый

Noun

inanimate (plural inanimates)

1. Something that is not alive.

Verb

inanimate (inanimates, present participle inanimating; past and past participle inanimated)

1. (obsolete) To animate.
   • 1621, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary

     For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill

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