Usually means: Lacking life, motion, and consciousness.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word inanimate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. inanimate: Merriam-Webster
  2. inanimate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inanimate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inanimate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inanimate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inanimate, inanimate: Wordnik
  7. inanimate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inanimate: Wiktionary
  9. inanimate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inanimate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inanimate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inanimate: Dictionary.com
  13. inanimate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inanimate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Inanimate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inanimate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. inanimate: Rhymezone
  18. inanimate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inanimate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. inanimate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. inanimate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. inanimate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inanimate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. inanimate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inanimate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inanimate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inanimate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. inanimate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. inanimate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See inanimately as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
adjective:  Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
adjective:  (grammar) Not animate.
noun:  (rare) Something that is not alive.
verb:  (obsolete) To animate.

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