<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>not animate; lifeless.</li><li>Synonyms: dead, inert, mineral, vegetable, inorganic.</li><li>spiritless; sluggish; dull.</li><li>Synonyms: torpid, dormant, inactive.</li><li>Linguistics: belonging to a syntactic category or having a semantic feature that is characteristic of words denoting objects, concepts, and beings regarded as lacking perception and volition (animate).</li></ul>