Inanimate

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪnˈænɪmÉ™t/

Origin

- + animate

Full definition of inanimate

Adjective

1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
2. Not being, and never having been alive.
• 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Chapter 5, I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
3. (grammar) Not animate.

Antonyms

• (grammar) animate

Noun

1. Something that is not alive.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To animate.----