inanimate

Meanings

Adjective

• Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
• Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
• Not animate.

Noun

• Something that is not alive.

Verb

• To animate.

Related

Similar words

• immobile, motionless
• non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate

Opposite words

• animate

Origin

• in- + animate
• Latin inanimō; equivalent to