Antonyms for inanimate
ɪnˈæn ə mɪtinan·i·mate

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1. inanimateadjective

   Antonyms:
   animate

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1. inanimate

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

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

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1. inanimateadjective

   belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things

   "the word `car' is inanimate"

   Antonyms:
   live, alive(p), animate

   Synonyms:
   non-living, nonliving, pulseless, breathless

2. inanimate, nonliving, non-livingadjective

   not endowed with life

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

   Antonyms:
   animate, live, alive(p)

   Synonyms:
   non-living, nonliving, pulseless, breathless

3. breathless, inanimate, pulselessadjective

   appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse

   "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"

   Antonyms:
   live, animate, alive(p)

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

How to use inanimate in a sentence?

1. David J. Gannon:

   I talk to inanimate objects all the time.

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. 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.

4. Adam Waytz:

   In general, humans care about other humans, so when we humanize something inanimate, it makes us care about the thing more, naming things can make them more memorable, easier to recall, and certainly it makes things feel more fluent or easy to process. Given that work shows that easily processed information takes on outsized importance in our minds, it is likely that naming things can give them importance as well.

5. Russell Baker:

   The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

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