Word Meanings - INACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive

Additional info about word: INACTIVE

Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid. Syn. -- Inert; dull; sluggish; idle; indolent; slothful; lazy. See Inert. (more info) 1. Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive. 2. Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INACTIVE)

• Idle
• Void
• unoccupied
• waste
• vain
• empty
• unemployed
• useless
• inactive
• lazy
• indolent
• Inert
• Indolent
• slothful
• sluggish
• heavy
• passive
• dormant
• Passive
• Inactive
• inert
• quiescent
• unresisting
• unquestioning
• negative
• enduring
• patient
• Slow
• Sluggish
• unready
• tardy
• late
• gradual
• tedious
• dull
• dilatory
• lingering
• slack
• Supine
• Lazy
• indifferent
• listless
• negligent
• inattentive
• careless
• otiose
• torpid

Related words: (words related to INACTIVE)

• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SUPINE
  1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden. 3. Negligent; heedless; indolent;
• NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• LINGERING
  1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
• UNRESISTED
  1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
• ENDUREMENT
  Endurance. South.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• PATIENTLY
  In a patient manner. Cowper.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• OTIOSE
  Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• OMNIPATIENT
  Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• OUT-PATIENT
  A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
• OVERLINGER
  To cause to linger; to detain too long. Fuller.
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• RESUPINE
  Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.