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Inanimate means not living. A rock is inanimate; a cat is not. School grammar also talks about inanimate nouns — words for things, not people or animals. Though actually, people stretch it: an inanimate conversation means a dull one, as if the talk itself had no life. The core meaning is still “without life.” Unconscious is different: an unconscious person is alive, just not awake. Dead is also different: dead things were once alive; inanimate things (a chair, a stone) never were. There is a rare noun for “an inanimate thing,” but the adjective is what you will see.
無生命的
組成in- (“not”) + animate (“having life”). From Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus. Animate goes back to Latin anima, “breath, soul.”
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inanimateadj詞源 1/ɪnˈænɪmət/
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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.
- Retired when her position was dissolved due to advances in inanimate automation.
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Not alive, 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.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsNot animate.
inanimatenoun詞源 1/ɪnˈænɪmət/
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rareSomething that is not alive.
inanimateverb詞源 2/ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/
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obsoleteTo animate.
- For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。