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Inactive

adjective

(chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert.

(pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly. Antonym: active.

(military) not involved in military operations. Synonym: nonoperational. Antonym: operational.

Not exerting influence or change. Antonym: active.

(of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct. Synonym: dormant. Antonym: active.

Lacking in energy or will. Synonym: passive. Antonym: active.

Lacking activity; lying idle or unused. "Inactive accounts" , "Inactive machinery" Antonym: active.

Not engaged in full-time work. "An inactive member" Antonym: active.

Not active physically or mentally. "Dreamy and inactive by nature" Antonym: active.

10.

Not in physical motion. Synonyms: motionless, static, still.

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"Inactive" Quotes from Famous Books

... For five months the patient presented a marked stupor. She was for the most part very inactive, totally mute, staring vacantly, often not even blinking, so that for a time the conjunctivae were dry. She did not swallow, but held her saliva; did not react to pin pricks or feinting motions before her eyes. Sometimes she retained her urine, again wet ...

— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch

... a new interest. Constantly worrying about his own inactive life, and what he deemed his culpable supineness as a citizen, the pinched peer envied any man to whom the Lower ...

— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing

... inactive; he left those scenes amid which misfortune had overtaken him, and repaired to the eastern cities, where he readily found employ in an extensive printing establishment, and applied himself assiduously to his duties. In a short time he was admitted ...

— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton

... goat it must be understood was with young and extreemly poor. a great number of these goats are devowered by the wolves and bear at this season when they are poor and passing the river from S. W. to N. E. they are very inactive and easily taken in the water, a man can out swim them with great ease; the Indians take them in great numbers in the river at this season and in autumn when they repass to the ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... absolute monarchy. As a matter of fact, this is what many of them desired; they were, however, only doing their duty as members of society; it would have been mere cowardice and indolence had they remained inactive and seen all the institutions they valued overthrown without attempting to defend them. It required considerable courage in the middle of so violent a crisis to come forward and attempt to stop ...

— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam

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