An inanimate object is one that has no life. He thought of the baby almost as an inanimate object. animate. not living
not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate
appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"