inanimate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: inanimate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inanimate adj belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" Antonym(s): animate not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects" Synonym(s): inanimate, nonliving, non- living Antonym(s): animate appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" Synonym(s): breathless, inanimate, pulseless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inanimate \Inan"imate\, 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inanimate \Inan"imate\, v. t. [Pref. in- in (or intensively) + animate.] To animate. [Obs.] --Donne.