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nonalive

nonalive adjective: not alive.

Adjective

nonalive (not comparable)

  1. Not alive.
    • “If you see a corpse and refer to it as nonalive, it doesn’t make it less dead.”2009 April 4, Robin Pogrebin, “Parsons Faculty Is Cut Amid Protests by Artists”, in New York Times

Origin of nonalive

From non- + alive.

Questions about nonalive

What does nonalive mean?
Nonalive means not alive.
What part of speech is nonalive?
Nonalive is an adjective.

Words near nonalive in the dictionary

  1. nonalike
  2. nonalimentary
  3. nonalimony
  4. nonalingual
  5. nonaliphatic
  6. nonalive
  7. nonalkalic
  8. nonalkaline
  9. nonalkaloid
  10. nonalkaloidal
  11. nonalkaloids

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