Inanimate

v. t.	1.	To animate.
a.	1.	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.

Adj.	1.	inanimate - belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" Antonyms: 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"; "dead stones" Synonyms: nonliving, dead Antonyms: 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" Synonyms: pulseless, breathless

abiotic, animate, apathetic, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, azoic, benumbed, bereft of life, blase, bored, breathless, called home, carrion, cold, common gender, croaked, dead and gone, death-struck, debilitated, defunct, demised, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dumb, enervated, exanimate, extinct, fallen, feminine, finished, food for worms, gender, gone to glory, gone west, heavy, hebetudinous, immobile, inactive, inanimated, inert, insensate, insentient, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, leaden, lethargic, listless, lumpish, martyred, masculine, moribund, motionless, mute, neuter, no more, nonconscious, nonliving, numb, passed on, phlegmatic, pooped, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, sainted, sated, senseless, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish, smitten with death, somnolent, soulless, stagnant, stagnating, still, stillborn, stultified, supine, taken away, taken off, torpid, unanimated, unconscious, unfeeling, unmoving, vegetative, wan, weary, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, world-weary

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