inanimate
adjective
1. belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things
- the word `car' is inanimate
2. not endowed with life
- the inorganic world is inanimate
- inanimate objects
Similar word(s): nonconscious, nonliving
3. appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
- an inanimate body
Similar word(s): dead, breathless, pulseless
noun
1. Something that is not alive.
verb
1. (obsolete) To animate.