English Dictionary

inanimate

/ɪnˈænɪmət/

adj

Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object. / Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals. / (grammar) Not animate.

The statue stood still in the park.

意味（1）

Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.

The love of the inanimate is a general feeling. True, it makes no return of affection, neither does it disappoint it; its associations are from our thoughts and emotions.

意味（2）

Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.

I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.

意味（3）

(grammar) Not animate.