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Inanimate

adjective

Belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things.

Not endowed with life. Synonyms: non-living, nonliving. "Inanimate objects"

Appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse. Synonyms: breathless, pulseless. "Pulseless and dead"

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"Inanimate" Quotes from Famous Books

... be the matter. The Indian chief was indifferent to the interpreted demands of Mr. Damon, and that gentleman, though he blessed any number of animate and inanimate objects, ...

— Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel - or, The Hidden City of the Andes • Victor Appleton

... pleasures of wealth that which has the strongest influence is a country place, especially when it brings with it old remembrances, and associations that appeal powerfully to the affections and the imagination. More than any other inanimate thing it throws its tendrils round the human heart and becomes the object of a deep and lasting affection. But even here it will be probably found that this pleasure is more felt by the owner of one country ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... in. "All the world... You may wonder at my slowness in recognising the name. But you know that my memory is merely a mausoleum of proper names. There they lie inanimate, awaiting the magic touch—and not very prompt in arising when called, either. The name is the first thing I forget of a man. It is but just to add that frequently it is also the last, and this accounts ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

... to a person or thing, absent or dead, is an apostrophe, and when an inanimate object is assumed to be alive or an animate object is assumed to be raised to a higher plane of existence it is said to be by personification. Examples of the latter figure are "death's menace," "laugh of morn." In the line "Lucidity of soul unlocks the lips" are ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester

... Watteau-like garment of vaporous blue, painted with faded pink roses. She was seated in a large carved and gilded chair, opposite an excessively Louis-Quinze mirror, while her pale golden hair was being brushed out by a brown, inanimate-looking maid. Her little oval face, with its soft cloudy hair growing low on the forehead, long blue eyes, and rosebud mouth, had something of the romantic improbability of an eighteenth-century miniature. From the age of two Felicity had ...

— The Twelfth Hour • Ada Leverson

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