nonlive

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ live.

Adjective

nonlive (not comparable)

1. Not live (in various senses).

   Antonyms: alive, live, animate

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

   a nonlive birth

   a nonlive vaccine

   nonlive music

   nonlive ammunition

Related terms

• unalive (verb)
• unlive (verb)
• unlive (verb)

 

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