nonalive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ alive

Adjective[edit]

nonalive (not comparable)

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