• IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmət/

inanimate

1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 172 ↗:

     The love of the inanimate is a general feeling. True, it makes no return of affection, neither does it disappoint it; its associations are from our thoughts and emotions.

2. Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
3. (grammar) Not animate.

• (unable to move) immobile, motionless
• (not alive) non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate

• (antonym(s) of “grammar”): animate

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

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

• French: inanimé
• German: unbelebt
• Russian: неодушевлённый

inanimate (plural inanimates)

1. (rare) Something that is not alive.

From Latin inanimō; equivalent to .

• IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/

inanimate (inanimates, present participle inanimating; simple 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