Crossword-Solution: INERTIA 7 letters, 218 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Inertia n. That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to
remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same
straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; --
sometimes called vis inertiae.
Inertia n. Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action;
want of energy; sluggishness.
Inertia n. Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the
uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

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INERTIA anagram INERITA

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A property of matter, in physics. 1 answer
Common symptom of spring fever. 1 answer
Concept in Newton's first law 1 answer
Couch potato quality 1 answer
Couch potato's problem 1 answer
Disinclination to act 1 answer
Disinclination to change 1 answer
Disinclination to motion 1 answer
Disinclination to move 1 answer
Disinclination to move or act 1 answer
First law of motion subject 1 answer
Galilean concept 1 answer
Homebodies' propensity 1 answer
Homebody's propensity 1 answer
INABILITY to move except when stimulated by external force 1 answer
INDISPOSITION to motion 1 answer
Impedance to progress 1 answer
Indisposition to act. 1 answer
Indisposition to change 1 answer
It keeps the ball rolling 1 answer
It keeps things going 1 answer
It keeps things moving 1 answer
It may be hard to overcome 1 answer
It will keep you going 1 answer
It'll keep you going 1 answer
It'll keep you going and stop you from starting 1 answer
Lack of action 1 answer
Lack of motion 1 answer
Lazy person's state 1 answer
Loafer's quality 1 answer
Mechanics concept 1 answer
Motion notion 1 answer
Natural resistance to change 1 answer
Newtonian concept 1 answer
Newtonian subject 1 answer
Newtonian topic 1 answer
Notion about motion 1 answer
Notion of motion 1 answer
Obstacle to change 1 answer
Possible reason to lie in bed all morning 1 answer
Principle behind the need for seat belts 1 answer
Principle in Newton's first law 1 answer
Problem for lazy people 1 answer
Property of bodies in motion 1 answer
RELUCTANCE to move 1 answer
Reason the physicist stayed in bed? 1 answer
Reason to keep moving 1 answer
Relativity topic 1 answer
Seat belts help overcome this 1 answer
Sleep ___ (grogginess after waking up) 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with INERTIA (5)

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct—not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Inertia is that property of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change its own condition of rest or motion.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
With the limpness and inertia of a sack of sand, the reins slipping loosely in his dangling fingers, his eyes fixed, staring between the horses' heads, he allowed himself to be carried aimlessly along.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
Yet this inertia was torn by wild flashes of resistance, and when they were apart she began to prepare again what she meant to say to him.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1995
High-stepping horses or elaborately equipped motors waited to carry these ladies into vague metropolitan distances, whence they returned, still more wan from the weight of their sables, to be sucked back into the stifling inertia of the hotel routine.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with INERTIA (3)

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
Aleister Crowley
If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire them now, before it is too late to improve the quality of life. To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn be…
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
With a few notable exceptions, state and local government officials had completely failed to do their jobs. Official incompetence, bureaucratic inertia, neglect, and the desire to protect abortion from a harsh spotlight whatever the cost caused needless deaths and injuries. The grand jury's conclusion was damning: Kermit Gosnell murdered and maimed with impunity for thirty years because virtually no one did his job properly.
Ann McElhinney Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 170 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).