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. Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown:

   Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

2. 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.

3. Glenn Lurie:

   It's about vehicles talking to vehicles and vehicles talking to infrastructure. It's about moving closer to self-driving vehicles, it's about this working with your home, it's about inanimate objects taking care of you versus you taking care of them.

4. David J. Gannon:

   I talk to inanimate objects all the time.

5. Glenn Lurie:

   Once you’ve told your home when the car is (for instance)within 20 feet of the house to please open the garage door, put the lights on, turn the alarm off, move the thermostat up, you can have those inanimate objects, the home and your car, really taking care of you.