inanimate

adj 1: (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns denoting

nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" [ant:

{animate}]

2: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate";

"inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [syn: {nonliving}, {dead}]

[ant: {animate}]

3: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible

pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" [syn: {breathless},

{pulseless}]