non-living

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Apparently the Danish don't mind being driven by a non-living thing.

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not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"

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adjective

not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for non-living.

adjective

not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"

Example sentences

Apparently the Danish don't mind being driven by a non-living thing.

So what looks like a non-living wage can be perfectly sustainable as long as you're doing it to supplement other income.

"Londoners apparently do not feel comfortable being driven by a non-living thing.

Then let them.. and that becomes public record, and a non-living entity isn't directly affecting political sway.

An article I read the other day about human consciousness touched upon our tendency to project consciousness/will/agency onto non-living things, like the puppet controlled by a ventriloquist.

There is no intrinsic merit to the statements "God created the world" and "Animals evolved from simpler lifeforms and ultimately from non-living compounds" their merit is entirely extrinsic, deriving from research done by scientists.

A plush toy, is only a non-living thing, that sits and do nothing, NAM is a 115 country strong organization, most of which are countries that joined it to not align based on military issues, but on development issues, with someone like India, who have also been under colonial rule like them