Crossword-Solution: INACTIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Inactive | a. | Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive. |
| Inactive | a. | Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer. |
| Inactive | a. | Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| INACTIVE | anagram | VICENTIA |
We have 145 clues for the answer “INACTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like Mount St. Helens, now | 1 answer |
| lymphatic | 1 answer |
| not in physical motion | 1 answer |
| unworking | 1 answer |
| On the sidelines | 2 answers |
| Like some volcanoes | 3 answers |
| Hibernating | 3 answers |
| Jobless | 4 answers |
| ossified | 5 answers |
| all the same to | 5 answers |
| AT anchor | 5 answers |
| Out of service | 6 answers |
| Out of work | 6 answers |
| dronish | 7 answers |
| On strike | 7 answers |
| Sound asleep? | 7 answers |
| BONE idle | 7 answers |
| out of commission | 9 answers |
| inorganic | 10 answers |
| unsusceptible | 10 answers |
| past work | 10 answers |
| A DORMANT OR QUIESCENT STATE | 11 answers |
| Faineant | 12 answers |
| Retired | 14 answers |
| half awake | 14 answers |
| ABROGATED | 15 answers |
| Abeyant | 15 answers |
| otiose | 16 answers |
| BELOW the surface | 17 answers |
| In abeyance | 18 answers |
| Sleeping | 19 answers |
| irrelative | 19 answers |
| cataleptic | 20 answers |
| stay-at-home | 21 answers |
| insentient | 21 answers |
| Fallow | 21 answers |
| Unenthusiastic | 22 answers |
| Do-nothing | 22 answers |
| incurious | 23 answers |
| Sitting | 23 answers |
| Out ___ cold | 23 answers |
| Do nothing | 23 answers |
| blacked out | 26 answers |
| undiscriminating | 28 answers |
| deadened | 30 answers |
| knocked out | 30 answers |
| Resting | 32 answers |
| out like a light | 32 answers |
| COMING late | 33 answers |
| Summery | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INACTIVE (5)
The sound came steadily nearer; and in advance of it came this ghastly thought, “The crocodile is about to board the ship!” Even the iron claw hung inactive; as if knowing that it was no intrinsic part of what the attacking force wanted.
The Weasel and the Mice A WEASEL, inactive from age and infirmities, was not able to catch mice as he once did.
The men of rank and dignity, who stood more immediately around the clergyman, were so taken by surprise, and so perplexed as to the purport of what they saw—unable to receive the explanation which most readily presented itself, or to imagine any other—that they remained silent and inactive spectators of the judgement which Providence seemed about to work.
The more she thought of the matter, the more convinced she became that the recent telephone message might be but a ruse to keep them inactive until the boy was safely hidden away or spirited out of England.
Her electric apparatus remained inactive and her motionless screw left her to drift at the mercy of the currents.
Quotes with INACTIVE (3)
If I could forget you! Is my love then a work of memory? Even if time expunged everything from its tablets, expunged even memory itself, my relation to you would stay just as alive, you would still not be forgotten. If I could forget you! What then should I remember? For after all, I have forgotten myself in order to remember you: so if I forgot you I would come to remember myself; but the moment I remembered myself I would have to remember you again. If I could forget you! W…
Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive
This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that anyone is entirely destitute of virtue, nor that human nature is equal in itself, nor that man’s spirit in inactive, and much less does it mean that the body is dead. What is does mean is that since the fall, man rests under the curse of sin, that he is actuated by wrong principles, and that he is wholly unabl…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1974–2016).