Inactive Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-ăktĭv
Inert
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dormant
  2. latent
  3. idle
  4. quiescent
  5. abeyant
  6. stable
  7. inert
  8. still
  9. sleeping
Antonyms:
  1. active
  2. busy
  3. working
  4. involved
  5. operational
Not occupied or put to use
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. idle
  2. unemployed
  3. unused
  4. vacant
(of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dormant
(military) not involved in military operations
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. nonoperational

Words Related to Inactive

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. action
  2. used
  3. lazy
  4. show
  5. non-active

Inactive Sentence Examples

  • During the national war he was inactive because he was not needed.

  • Let's chalk it up to an inactive spring.

  • Prince Andrew's regiment was among the reserves which till after one o'clock were stationed inactive behind Semenovsk, under heavy artillery fire.

  • Hydrolysis of the bound GTP to GDP + P i converts the protein to the inactive conformation.

  • In addition, radium evolves an "emanation" which is an extraordinarily inert gas, recalling the "inactive" gases of the atmosphere.

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