To infuse life or vigor into; animate; quicken.Not animate; having lost life or vital force: as, the inanimate body of a man.Not animated; without vivacity or briskness; spiritless; inactive; sluggish; dull: as, inanimate movements; inanimate conversation.Synonyms Dead, lifeless, inert, soulless, spiritless.In grammar, denoting inanimate things: applied to a phase of ‘gender’ distinction.