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# inanimate

adjective (inanimate)

«inanimate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Not alive, like a rock, a chair or a toy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/#m1)
2. Not moving and showing no sign of life. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on living things pupils sort objects into living and non-living (inanimate). In grammar, inanimate nouns name things, not people or animals. In stories, toys that come to life were inanimate before. Phrase: inanimate object.

### Examples

- A rock is an inanimate object. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/#x1)
- We sorted pictures into living and inanimate things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/#x2)
- In the story, the inanimate puppet started to dance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/#x3)
- Don't blame the chair — it's an inanimate object! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/#x4)
- He lay inanimate on the sofa after the race. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/#x5)
- Fire moves and grows but it is inanimate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/#x6)
- So in all the fables that are or are not Æsop's all the animal forces drive like inanimate forces, like great rivers or growing trees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/#x7)

### Note

Opposite: animate (alive), living. Trap: fire, wind and robots move, but they are not alive — moving is not the same as living. Formal; everyday words: non-living, lifeless.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «inanimate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inanimate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«inanimate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/inanimate.html) on Mova free.