inanimate

comparative more inanimate · superlative most inanimate

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

   Retired when her position was dissolved due to advances in inanimate automation.

   (Can we date this quote?), Toontown: Corporate Clash Development Team, Manager Profile of the Mouthpiece

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   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, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 172

   Synonyms: immobile, motionless, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, inert, lifeless

2. 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, Mary Shelley, chapter 5, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2011

   Synonyms: non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate

3. grammarNot animate.

   Antonyms: animate

plural inanimates

1. rareSomething that is not alive.

present singular third person inanimates · participle present inanimating · participle past inanimated · past inanimated

1. obsoleteTo animate.

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

   1621, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary