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nonlive

nonlive adjective: not live (in various senses).

Adjective

nonlive (not comparable)

  1. Not live (in various senses).
    • Near-synonyms: nonalive, unalive, dead, devitalized, inanimate (all sometimes denotatively synonymous but not idiomatically interchangeable)
    • a nonlive birth
    Antonyms:
    alive, live, animate

Synonyms of nonlive

Antonyms

Origin of nonlive

From non- + live.

Questions about nonlive

What does nonlive mean?
Nonlive means not live (in various senses).
What part of speech is nonlive?
Nonlive is an adjective.

Words near nonlive in the dictionary

  1. nonlitigation
  2. nonlitigious
  3. nonlittered
  4. nonlittering
  5. nonliturgical
  6. nonlive
  7. nonliver
  8. nonlives
  9. nonlivestock
  10. nonliving
  11. nonlixiviated

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