Crossword-Solution: INOPERATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inoperative | a. | Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “INOPERATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Won't run | 1 answer |
| ... the beginning of a spy? | 1 answer |
| Needing fixing | 4 answers |
| Not running | 8 answers |
| Kaput | 28 answers |
| Not working | 34 answers |
| Incapable | 47 answers |
| Baseless | 53 answers |
| Indolent | 56 answers |
| Groundless | 61 answers |
| Lazy | 62 answers |
| Unoccupied | 63 answers |
| unskilful | 65 answers |
| Deceased | 70 answers |
| Ineffective | 70 answers |
| Unqualified | 71 answers |
| BROKEN ___ | 78 answers |
| DEAD ___ | 82 answers |
| Useless | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMAEEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with INOPERATIVE (5)
When the agencies which had hitherto held the lower nature in check became inoperative--when man began to regard himself as a Creator and therefore as the superior of woman--he had reached a point at which he was largely controlled by supernatural or mystical influences.
Finally it was found that if the nose of the machine was tilted down a recovery could be effected; from which they concluded that what actually happened was that the machine, 'owing to the increased load caused by centrifugal force,' had insufficient power to maintain itself in the air and therefore lost speed until a point was reached at which the controls became inoperative.
But it usually happens that those forward men have that valuable quality of promptness and activity without which worth is a mere inoperative property.
Indeed it is now popularly considered that, by long hereditary disuse, the Gy-ei have lost both the aggressive and defensive superiority over the Ana which they once possessed, just as in the inferior animals above the earth many peculiarities in their original formation, intended by nature for their protection, gradually fade or become inoperative when not needed under altered circumstances.
This arbitrary standard they were not afraid to hold out to both Houses; while an idle and inoperative Act of Parliament, estimating the dignity of the Crown at 800,000 pounds, and confining it to that sum, adds to the number of obsolete statutes which load the shelves of libraries without any sort of advantage to the people.
Quotes with INOPERATIVE (2)
This exquisite state of unconcerned immersion in oneself is not, unfortunately, of long duration. It is liable to be disturbed from inside. As though sprung from nowhere, moods, feelings, desires, worries and even thoughts incontinently rise up, in a meaningless jumble.... The only successful way of rendering this disturbance inoperative is to keep on breathing quietly and unconcernedly, to enter into friendly relations with whatever appears on the scene, to accustom oneself …
This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2000–2010).