inanimate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not endowed with life

   the inorganic world is inanimate

2. 2
   adj

   belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things

   the word `car' is inanimate

3. 3
   adj

   Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   Not alive, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.

   I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.

5. 5
   verb

   To animate.

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

6. 6
   adj

   appearing dead

7. 7
   adj

   Not animate.

8. 8
   noun

   Something that is not alive.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English inanimat(e), from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus (“animated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + animate. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).