Definition of inactive

adjective (a)

• (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly (adj.all)

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• (military) not involved in military operations (adj.all)

  Synonym: nonoperational
  Antonym: operational
  

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• not exerting influence or change (adj.all)

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• (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct (adj.all)

  Synonym: dormant
  

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• lacking in energy or will (adj.all)

  Synonym: passive
  

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• lacking activity; lying idle or unused (adj.all)

  Example:
  An inactive mine.
  Inactive accounts.
  Inactive machinery.
  

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• not engaged in full-time work (adj.all)

  Example:
  Inactive reserve.
  An inactive member.
  

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• not active physically or mentally (adj.all)

  Antonym: active
  

  Example:
  Illness forced him to live an inactive life.
  Dreamy and inactive by nature.
  

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• Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive. (adjective)

  source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

• (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert (adj.all)

  Example:
  Desired amounts of inactive chlorine.
  

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• not in physical motion (adj.all)

  Synonym: motionless, static, still
  

  source: wordnet30

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