Antonyms of adj exanimate

1 sense of exanimate

Sense 1
lifeless, exanimate -- (deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body")

INDIRECT (VIA dead) -> alive, live -- (possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary")

Similarity of adj exanimate

1 sense of exanimate

Sense 1
lifeless, exanimate -- (deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body")
       => dead (vs. alive) -- (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin")