belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things
<adj.all> the word `car' is inanimate
not endowed with life
<adj.all> the inorganic world is inanimate inanimate objects
appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
<adj.all> an inanimate body pulseless and dead
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}.
A once expressive actress - remember Polanski's Repulsion? - is now cast forever as the First Lady of French cinema. If Hollywood had a star as inanimate as this, they would consign her to stand-in work for the Columbia torch lady.
But courts are very sympathetic to animal cases; judges are beginning to realize that animals are not just inanimate objects," said Ms. Marion.
The experiment is based partly on the physics principle of entrainment, which holds that all pulsating or beating objects, animate and inanimate, tend to match the rhythms of nearby objects.