Synonyms for nonanimal
- azoic
- cold
- dead
- defunct
- dull
- exanimate
- extinct
- idle
- inactive
- inert
- inoperative
- insensate
- insentient
- lifeless
- mineral
- motionless
- nonvegetable
- quiescent
- soulless
- spiritless
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Antonyms for nonanimal
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WORD ORIGIN
early 14c. (but rare before c.1600, and not in KJV, 1611), "any living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," neuter of animalis "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (see animus, and cf. deer). Drove out the older beast in common usage. Used of brutish humans from 1580s.
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inanimate
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