exanimate

Devoid of vitality

Exanimate means lifeless or dead—without animation.

The word is rare and literary, appearing mostly in older texts or deliberately archaic prose: The exanimate body lay where it had fallen.

By extension, it can describe someone who appears utterly devoid of spirit or energy, as if the life has drained out of them.

lifeless

corpse

Deceased human body

defunct · departed · extinct · perished · expired · breathless · inert · motionless · unresponsive · soulless

desolate

barren

Unable to produce

  • bleakDreary and without cheer
  • forsakenCompletely abandoned or discarded
  • emptyHolding nothing inside

void · sterile · wasteland · lifeless · stark · dreary · cheerless · grim · forlorn · godforsaken

inert

motionless

Lacking all movement

still · dormant · torpid · stagnant · unmoving · passive · quiescent · supine · prostrate · paralyzed

spiritless

apathetic

Without feeling or concern

lackadaisical · phlegmatic · dispirited · dejected · despondent · deflated · hollow · vacant · passionless · unmotivated

Opposites
life status

exanimatealive

Having current existence

living · live · animate · vital · extant

vitality/energy

exanimateanimated

Full of life, or drawn moving

lively · vivacious · spirited · active · vibrant

Family

animated, animation, animate, animosity, unanimous, inanimate, animus, magnanimous, animator

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