Crossword-Solution: INERT 5 letters, 415 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Inert	a.	Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.
Inert	a.	Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.
Inert	a.	Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
INERT	anagram	INTER, IRENT, NITER, NITRE, NTIRE, RETIN, TENIR, TERIN, TERNI, TRINE

We have 415 clues for the answer “INERT”

Clue	Answers
Adjective for argon	1 answer
Adjective for argon or neon	1 answer
Adjective for helium.	1 answer
Adjective for krypton.	1 answer
Adjective for neon	1 answer
Adjective for neon or argon.	1 answer
Apt to stay put	1 answer
Averse to action	1 answer
Chemically "quiet"	1 answer
Chemically comatose	1 answer
Chemically nonreactive	1 answer
Chemically nonreactive, as a gas	1 answer
Chemically unreactive	1 answer
Comatose, chemically	1 answer
Dead to the world, as a chemical	1 answer
Descriptive of neon.	1 answer
Disinclined to form compounds	1 answer
Dull: slow.	1 answer
Extremely still	1 answer
Gas type	1 answer
Habitually inactive or sluggish.	1 answer
Hard to combine	1 answer
Hard to combine, chemically	1 answer
Hard to get a reaction out of	1 answer
Hardly dynamic	1 answer
Hardly moving	1 answer
Having limited ability to react	1 answer
Having no will to move	1 answer
Helium is an ___ gas.	1 answer
Heliumlike	1 answer
Immobile, as a gas	1 answer
Immobilized, as a gas	1 answer
Inactive, as gases	1 answer
Inactive, chemically	1 answer
Indisposed to action.	1 answer
Just sitting there, as a gas	1 answer
Krypton descriptor	1 answer
Lacking motion	1 answer
Less than slow	1 answer
Lethargic, perhaps	1 answer
Unreactive as a noble gas	1 answer
Not showing response	1 answer
Unreactive or motionless	1 answer
In a state of inactivity	1 answer
Like Freon or neon	1 answer
Like Xenon	1 answer
Like a dead weight	1 answer
Like a non-reactive substance	1 answer
Like a nonreactive element	1 answer
Like a pocketful of krypton	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with INERT (5)

After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night oblivious and inert, was awakened, in the small hours of Monday morning, to a vivid sense of danger.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Marguerite sat, straight upright, rigid and inert, trying to think, trying to face the situation, to realise what had best be done.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

But as the body of my antagonist sank an inert mass to the floor a cry of warning broke from one of the female prisoners.

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

This good fortune could not last indefinitely, and, assured that Thurid would not again leave me alive, I awaited the bursting of the next shell that hit; and then, throwing my hands above my head, I let go my hold and crumpled, limp and inert, dangling in my harness like a corpse.

The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with INERT (3)

Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet possible.…

Marcel Proust

But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre The Age of Reason

Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means that it is directed, quasi-teleologically, towards a *truth in itself* in which the reason underlying all appearances is to be found. The tacit thesis of perception is that at every instant experience can be co-ordinated with that of the previous instant and that of the following, and my perspective with that of other consciousnesse…

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 931 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).