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inanimate

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in·an·i·mate  (n-n-mt)
adj.
1. Not having the qualities associated with active, living organisms. See Synonyms at dead.
2. Not animated or energetic; dull.
3. Grammar Belonging to the class of nouns that stand for nonliving things: The word car is inanimate; the word dog is animate.

in·ani·mate·ly adv.
in·ani·mate·ness n.

inanimate
Adjective
lacking the qualities of living beings: inanimate objects
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.inanimate - belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate"
linguistics - the scientific study of language
animate - belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"
2.inanimate - not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"
animate - endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"
3.inanimate - appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"
dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

inanimate
Translations

inanimate [ɪnˈænɪmət] adjinanimado
inanimate [ɪnˈænɪmət] adjinanimé(e)
inanimate [ɪnˈænɪmət] adjunbelebt
inanimate [ɪnˈænɪmət] adjinanimato/a

inanimate
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As you know I have long possessed the power to cross the void in spirit, but never before have I been able to impart to inanimate things a similar power.
Even inanimate things of the most trivial kind may in a sense be objects of recognition.
Hem believes that in the visible world there are void places-- vacua, and something more--holes, as it were, through which animate and inanimate objects may fall into the invisible world and be seen and heard no more.
 
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