Inanimate and Lives

Opposite meaning words

Inanimate adjective - Lacking animate awareness or sensation.

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Lives is an antonym for inanimate.

Nearby Word: inanimation

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Inanimate is an antonym for lives in being topic.

We then have Beast's castle where all the humans have been transformed into moving and talking inanimate objects and there's Beast who lives up to his name.

Source: Outside-Context Problem
That is, their "lives" are bound to an inanimate object.

Source: Soul Jar
With each cut of his blade, he inserts himself into the target's past up to the point where they think he's always been in their lives - and this works on inanimate objects too, to the effect that cutting a battlefield allows him to have set up explosives there. Creepy.

Source: Retconjuration

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