Synonyms for inanimate
ɪnˈæn ə mɪtinan·i·mate

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1. inanimateadjective

   Antonyms:
   animate

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1. inanimate

   Synonyms:
   dead, deceased, defunct, dispirited, dull, lifeless, spiritless

   Antonyms:
   active, alert, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, existent, existing, live, lively, living, quick, subsisting, vivacious

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1. inanimateadjective

   belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things

   "the word `car' is inanimate"

   Synonyms:
   non-living, nonliving, pulseless, breathless

   Antonyms:
   live, alive(p), animate

2. inanimate, nonliving, non-livingadjective

   not endowed with life

   "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"

   Synonyms:
   non-living, nonliving, pulseless, breathless

   Antonyms:
   animate, live, alive(p)

3. breathless, inanimate, pulselessadjective

   appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse

   "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"

   Synonyms:
   dyspneic, nonliving, pulseless, non-living, dyspnoeal, breathtaking, breathless, dyspnoeic, dyspneal

   Antonyms:
   live, animate, alive(p)

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1. inanimateadjective

   Synonyms:
   lifeless, dead, inert, soulless, spiritless

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1. List of paraphrases for "inanimate":

   non-living

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1. Russell Baker:

   Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

2. Erich Fromm:

   The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom.

3. Joseph de Maistre:

   In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

4. Russell Wayne Baker:

   Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.

5. dejan stojanovic:

   Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.