Sekirov Dictionary

inanimate

/ɪnˈænɪmət/

adjective 3
noun 1
/ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/ verb 1
forms 5

adjective3

•
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. — 1834
•
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. — 1818
Not animate.

noun1

(rare) Something that is not alive.

inanimate

/ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/

verb1

•
(no longer used) To animate.
- For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill — 1621

forms

inanimated · inanimating · inanimates · more inanimate · most inanimate

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