inert

Meanings

Plural: inerts

Adjective Satellite

• unable to move or resist motion
• having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive
  • "inert matter"
• slow and apathetic
  • "she was fat and inert"

Adj

• Unable to move or act; inanimate.
• Sluggish or lethargic.
• Not readily reacting with other elements or compounds.
• Having no therapeutic action.

Noun

• A substance that does not react chemically.

Verb

• To fill with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion.

Synonyms

abeyant, at rest, bone-idle, cessant, crawling, creeping, dormant, dreich, dull, fallow, fixed, gastropodous, glacial, heavy-footed, idle, immobile, immotile, immovable, inactive, inanimate, inching, indifferent, indolent, inert, labored, lackadaisical, languid, latent, lazy, lead-footed, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, lither, low-speed, lumbering, neutral, nonactive, plodding, pokey, ponderous, quiescent, rigid, sedent, sedentary, sessile, silent, slothful, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, soggy, stately, static, stationary, steady, stuck, subglacial, sullen, suspended, swear, tardigrade, tedious, testudineous, torpid, unactive, unbusy, unemployed, unmovable, unmoveable, unoccupied, unreactive, unspeedy, work-shy

Related Words

inertia

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