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The answer INANIMATE has 74 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of inanimate in various dictionaries:
adj - belonging to the class of noun s denoting nonliving things
adj - not endowed with life
adj - appearing dead
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| not alive. |
| having none of the characteristics of life that an animal or plant has: |
| possessing none of the characteristics of life that an animal or plant has: |
| Not having the qualities associated with active, living organisms. See Synonyms at dead. |
| Not animated or energetic dull. |
| Grammar Belonging to the class of nouns that stand for nonliving things: The word car is inanimate the word dog is animate. |
| not endowed with life |
| belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things |
| appearing dead not breathing or having no perceptible pulse |
| Inanimate description |
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| Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic principle expressed in language based on how sentient or alive the referent of a noun is. Widely expressed, animacy is one of the most elementary principles in languages around the globe, and is a distinction acquired as early as six months of age.Concepts of animacy constantly vary beyond a simple animate and inanimate binary; many languages function off of a hierarchical General Animacy Scale that ranks animacy as a "matter of gradience." Typically (with some variation of order and of where the cutoff for animacy occurs), the scale ranks humans above animals, then plants, natural forces, concrete objects, and abstract objects, in that order. In referring to humans, this scale contains a hierarchy of persons, ranking the first and second person pronouns above the third person, partly a product of empathy, involving the speaker and interlocutor. Additionally, the hierarchy tends to place singular persons over plural (as seen in |