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not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature" desk-bound, dormant, hypoactive, inert, sedentary not engaged in military action nonoperational not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest" nonmoving not active or exerting influence quiescent not participating in a chemical reaction; "desired amounts of inactive chlorine" unreactive not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly arrested, dead-end, indolent, latent, quiescent lacking activity; lying idle or unused; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" closed, dark, dead, dull, idle, strikebound not engaged in full-time work; "inactive reserve" ; "an inactive member of the department" off(p), on leave, retired of e.g. volcanos; temporarily inactive; "a dormant volcano" quiescent lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith hands-off, resistless temporarily inactive delayed of e.g. volcanos; permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano" dead |
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