Synonyms for nonlive

Most common

inanimate · unalive · nonalive

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Adjective

Antonyms

live, alive, animate

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Definitions

1. adj. 1

   Not live (in various senses).

   Near-synonyms: nonalive, unalive, dead, devitalized, inanimate (all sometimes denotatively synonymous but not idiomatically interchangeable)

Example sentences

• inanimate Stop threatening inanimate objects, they can't hear you.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

dead¹

7 letters

unalive

8 letters

nonalive

9 letters

inanimate⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (inanimate⁴ = 4 syllables).