What are the opposite words for inanimate?
Inanimate refers to objects or things that lack life or movement. Antonyms of inanimate are animate, living, and sentient. Animate refers to living organisms that exhibit movements and behaviours that indicate life, while living means possessing life, such as plants and animals. Sentient, on the other hand, refers to the capacity to perceive and feel emotions. Other antonyms of inanimate include vital, active, and energetic, which describe things that have a lot of life or energy, and dynamic, which means constantly changing or moving. The use of antonyms can help enrich our vocabulary and enhance our understanding of contrasting concepts, such as animate and inanimate.
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- life
- substance
- existence
- human
- material
- being
- body
- entity
- human being
- living thing
- mortal
- organism
- person
- whole
- creature
- matter
- physique
- soul
- fact
- being, beast
- individual
- object that exists
- event; detail of action
- person, homo sapiens
- singular person, thing
- matter, fabric
- entity, element
- something felt, seen, perceived
- alive
- all
- being animately existent
- not alive, not organic
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- life
- substance
- existence
- human
- material
- being
-
body
- bod,
- Corpus Delicti,
- fuselage,
- protoplasm,
- substructure,
- torso,
- Torsos,
- Torsi,
- beefcake,
- Protoplasms,
- staples,
- stiffs,
- BODS,
- fuselages,
- bag bone,
- bag bones,
- bag of bone,
- bag of bones,
- beefcakes,
- boodies,
- boody,
- corpora delicti,
- de ceased,
- de-ceased,
- deceaseds,
- dis course,
- dis courses,
- dis-course,
- dis-courses,
- ex-position,
- ex-positions,
- main part,
- main parts,
- mortal part,
- mortal parts,
- re main,
- re mains,
- re-main,
- re-mains,
- sub structure,
- sub structures,
- sub-structure,
- sub-structures,
- substructures,
- up shot,
- up shots,
- up-shot,
- up-shots.
- entity
- human being
- living thing
- mortal
- organism
-
person
- gal.
-
whole
- hook line and sinker,
- whole shebang,
- Collectivity,
- the works,
- collectivities,
- hook line and sinkers,
- hook line sinker,
- hook line sinkers,
- integrals,
- lock stock and barrel,
- lock stock and barrels,
- lock stock barrel,
- the work,
- whole ball of wax,
- whole ball wax,
- whole enchilada,
- whole enchiladas,
- whole nine yard,
- whole nine yards,
- whole shebangs.
- creature
- matter
-
physique
- body.
- soul
- fact
- being, beast
- individual
- object that exists
-
event; detail of action
- fact.
- person, homo sapiens
- singular person, thing
- matter, fabric
- entity, element
- something felt, seen, perceived
- alive
- all
- being animately existent
- not alive, not organic
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
wreathes
- Antonyms:
- uncover, unwrap, stay.