Definition: inanimate

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

inanimate
     adj 1: (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns denoting
            nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" [ant:
            animate]
     2: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate";
        "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [syn: nonliving, dead]
        [ant: animate]
     3: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible
        pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" [syn: breathless,
         pulseless]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Inanimate \In*an"i*mate\, v. t. [Pref. in- in (or intensively) +
   animate.]
   To animate. [Obs.] --Donne.
Inanimate \In*an"i*mate\, a. [L. inanimatus; pref. in- not +
   animatus animate.]
   Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead;
   inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate
   substances.

         Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves. --Byron.

   Syn: Lifeless; dead; inert; inactive; dull; soulless;
        spiritless. See Lifeless.