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1. Belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things
   "the word 'car' is inanimate"
    
2. Not endowed with life
   "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"
   - nonliving, non-living
    
3. Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
   "an inanimate body"
   - breathless, pulseless

See also: aliveness, animateness, dead, inanimateness, liveness, nonconscious

Antonym: animate

Encyclopedia: Inanimate