nonliving
Lacking vital signs
Nonliving describes things that lack the characteristics of life—growth, reproduction, metabolism, response to stimuli.
Rocks, water, and machines are nonliving.
The term appears most often in scientific contexts distinguishing organisms from their environment: nonliving matter, nonliving components of an ecosystem.
Unlike *dead*, nonliving implies the thing was never alive to begin with.
Solid earthen material
- stoneSolid earth fragment
- metalHard conductive solid
- glassTransparent solid from sand
- plasticCapable of being molded
wood · ceramic · concrete · mineral · crystal · sand · gravel · clay
Unable to produce
- desolateBleak and abandoned
- lifelessDevoid of animation
- deadNo longer alive
- uninhabitedHaving no occupants
empty · stark · bleak · arid · wasteland · void · vacant · inert
Clear essential liquid
- airGaseous envelope surrounding Earth
- sunlightRadiance from our star
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
- soilGround matter for planting
mineral · climate · atmosphere · oxygen · nitrogen · carbon · phosphorus · rock
rock
Solid earthen material
plastic · wood · ceramic · concrete · mineral · crystal · sand · gravel · clay · brick
barren
Unable to produce
uninhabited · empty · stark · bleak · arid · wasteland · void · vacant · inert · dormant
water
Clear essential liquid
- airGaseous envelope surrounding Earth
- sunlightRadiance from our star
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
soil · mineral · climate · atmosphere · oxygen · nitrogen · carbon · phosphorus · rock · sediment
plastic
Capable of being molded
silicone · fiberglass · vinyl · rubber · composite · alloy · faux · resin · polyester · latex
- animacyanimate, inanimate, dead, biotic, abiotic
- artificialartificial, synthetic, man-made, manufactured, fabricated