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inanimate

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈænɪmət/

The English word “inanimate” has 5 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
  2. Not alive, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
  3. Not animate.

noun

  1. Something that is not alive.

verb

  1. To animate.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English inanimat(e), from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus (“animated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + animate. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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