[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

inanimate \inan"imate\, v. t. pref. in- in or intensively +
   animate.
   to animate. obs. --donne.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

inanimate \inan"imate\, a. l. inanimatus; pref. in- not +
   animatus animate.
   not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead;
   inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate
   substances.
   1913 webster

         grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves. --byron.

   syn: lifeless; dead; inert; inactive; dull; soulless;
        spiritless. see lifeless.
        1913 webster
see also:
lifeless 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

inanimate
     adj 1: 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
see also:
animate nonliving dead breathless pulseless 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

116 moby thesaurus words for "inanimate":
   abiotic, animate, apathetic, asleep, asleep in jesus, at rest,
   azoic, benumbed, bereft of life, blase, bored, breathless,
   called home, carrion, cold, common gender, croaked, dead,
   dead and gone, death-struck, debilitated, deceased, defunct,
   demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for,
   dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, dumb, enervated, exanimate,
   extinct, fallen, feminine, finished, food for worms, gender, gone,
   gone to glory, gone west, heavy, hebetudinous, immobile, inactive,
   inanimated, inert, insensate, insensible, insentient, jaded,
   lackadaisical, languid, languorous, late, late lamented,
   launched into eternity, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless,
   lumpish, martyred, masculine, moribund, motionless, mute, neuter,
   no more, nonconscious, nonliving, numb, passed on, phlegmatic,
   pooped, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy,
   sainted, sated, senseless, sleeping, sleepy, slow, sluggish,
   smitten with death, somnolent, soulless, spiritless, stagnant,
   stagnating, still, stillborn, stultified, supine, taken away,
   taken off, torpid, unanimated, unconscious, unfeeling, unmoving,
   vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, with the lord, with the saints,
   without life, without vital functions, world-weary

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