Spend too much time on that couch and you risk becoming a couch potato (a potato is an inanimate object.) Add to word list possessing none of the characteristics of life that an animal or plant has An inanimate object (definition of inanimate from the cambridge academic content dictionary © cambridge university press) See examples of inanimate used in a sentence. Lacking the qualities or features of living beings
Dead or appearing to be dead A man was lying inanimate on the floor Definition of inanimate adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Inanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate) lacking the quality or ability of motion So inanimate means simply, not alive. that include things that are recently dead, things that were never alive to begin with, and things that simply look dead
