inanimate

  1. Adjective.  Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as ''an inanimate object''.
  2. Adjective.  Not being, and never having been alive.
  3. Adjective.  (grammar) Not animate.
  4. Noun.  Something that is not alive.

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