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INANIMATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
Example:
pulseless and dead
Synonyms:
breathless; inanimate; pulseless
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Derivation:
inanimateness (not having life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not endowed with life
Example:
inanimate objects
Synonyms:
inanimate; non-living; nonliving
Classified under:
Similar:
nonconscious (relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things)
Attribute:
aliveness; animateness; liveness (the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life)
Antonym:
animate (endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life)
Derivation:
inanimateness (not having life)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things
Example:
the word 'car' is inanimate
Classified under:
Adjectives
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Antonym:
animate (belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings)
