Word Meanings - INERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert. 2. Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. The inert and desponding party of the court. Macaulay.

Additional info about word: INERT

1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert. 2. Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. The inert and desponding party of the court. Macaulay. It present becomes extravagant, then imbecile, and at length utterly inert. I. Taylor. 3. Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect. Syn. -- Inactive; dull; passive; indolent; sluggish; slothful; lazy; lifeless; irresolute; stupid; senseless; insensible. -- Inert, Inactive, Sluggish. 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. Sluggish is still stronger, implying some defect of temperament which directly impedes action. Inert and inactive are negative, sluggish is positive. Even the favored isles . . . Can boast but little virtue; and, inert Through plenty, lose in morals what they gain In manners -- victims of luxurious ease. Cowper. Doomed to lose four months in inactive obscurity. Johnson. Sluggish Idleness, the nurse of sin, Upon a slothful ass he chose to ride. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INERT)

• Dormant
• Sleeping
• slumbering
• latent
• undeveloped
• quiescent
• inert
• Passive
• Inactive
• unresisting
• unquestioning
• negative
• enduring
• patient
• Slow
• Sluggish
• inactive
• Inert
• lazy
• unready
• tardy
• late
• gradual
• tedious
• dull
• dilatory
• lingering
• slack
• indolent
• phlegmatic
• slothful
• Iazy
• Torpid
• Numb
• lifeless
• senseless
• sluggish
• hibernating
• insensible

Related words: (words related to INERT)

• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• 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
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• SLUMBERY
  Sleepy. Chaucer.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• 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.
• PHLEGMATICALLY
  In a phlegmatic manner.
• 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.
• PHLEGMATICLY
  Phlegmatically.
• HIBERNATION
  The act or state of hibernating. Evelyn.
• SLEEP-AT-NOON
  A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
• SLUMBERER
  One who slumbers; a sleeper.
• SLEEPLESS
  1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• 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.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.