Synonyms for inactive
- adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not active, temporarily or permanently.
The volcano is inactive, but is only dormant.
Related words
- Word family
- inactivate inactivation inactively inactiveness inactivity
Choose the right word
A man may be inactive from mere want of stimulus to effort; but one who is inert has something in his constitution or his habits which operates like a weight holding him back from exertion. Inert and inactive are negative, sluggish is positive.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- inert Nitrous oxide is inert at room temperature.
- motionless Stefan shut his eyes and just lied there motionless.
- quiescent His normally quiescent demeanor hid a storm of ideas beneath the surface.
- torpid When it gets cold, the turtles become torpid.
- passive Passive smokers are the victims of active smokers.
By length
- 4 letters
- dead1, slow1, lazy2, dull1, idle2
- 5 letters
- still1, inert2
- 6 letters
- silent2, latent2, supine2, torpid2
- 7 letters
- passive2, dormant2, languid2
- 8 letters
- stagnant2, sluggish2, immobile3, indolent3, slothful
- 9 letters
- suspended3, lethargic3, quiescent3
- 10 letters
- unemployed3, motionless3, unoccupied4
- 11 letters
- inoperative5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lazy2 = 2 syllables).