inanimate

adj

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. Not animate.

noun

1. (rare)Something that is not alive.

verb

1. (obsolete)To animate.

   “For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill”