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in·ac·tive

(ĭn-ăk′tĭv)

adj.

1. Not active or tending to be active: inactive students at risk for gaining weight.

a. Not functioning or operating; out of use: inactive machinery.

b. Not being in continuous use or operation: an inactive brokerage account.

3. Retired from duty or service: inactive military personnel.

4. Chemistry Not readily participating in chemical reactions; inert.

5. Medicine Marked by the absence or lessening of disease activity.

6. Physics Showing no optical activity in polarized light.

in·ac′tive·ly adv.

in′ac·tiv′i·ty, in·ac′tive·ness n.

Synonyms: inactive, idle, inert, dormant, latent, quiescent
These adjectives mean not involved in or disposed to movement or activity. Inactive indicates absence of activity: retired but not inactive; an inactive factory. Idle refers to persons who are not doing anything or are not busy: employees who were idle because of the strike. It also refers to what is not in use or operation: idle machinery. Inert describes things powerless to move themselves or to produce a desired effect; applied to persons, it implies lethargy or sluggishness, especially of mind or spirit: "The Honorable Mrs. Jamieson ... was fat and inert, and very much at the mercy of her old servants" (Elizabeth C. Gaskell).
Dormant refers to a state of suspended activity but often implies the possibility of renewal: dormant feelings of affection. What is latent is present but not evident: latent ability. Quiescent sometimes—but not always—suggests temporary inactivity: "For a time, he [the whale] lay quiescent" (Herman Melville).

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Noun	1.	inactivity - the state of being inactive inaction, inactiveness state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" abeyance, suspension - temporary cessation or suspension anergy - inactivity and lack of energy halt, stoppage, arrest, hitch, stay, stop, check - the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" calcification - an inflexible and unchanging state; "the calcification of negotiations" deep freeze - temporary inactivity or suspension; "the legislation has now been revived after ten years in the deep freeze" desuetude - a state of inactivity or disuse dormancy, quiescence, quiescency - a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy" extinction - no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano" holding pattern - a state of inaction with no progress and no change; "you should go into a holding pattern until he gets over his disappointment" rest - a state of inaction; "a body will continue in a state of rest until acted upon" doldrums, stagnation, stagnancy - a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); "economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation" stagnancy, stagnation - inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation stasis - inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces activeness, activity, action - the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action"
	2.	inactivity - a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work" inertia, inactiveness trait - a distinguishing feature of your personal nature languor, lethargy, phlegm, sluggishness, flatness - inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" restfulness - the attribute of being restful; "he longed for the restfulness of home" passivity, passiveness - the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative indolence, laziness - inactivity resulting from a dislike of work
	3.	inactivity - being inactive; being less active human action, human activity, act, deed - something that people do or cause to happen pause - temporary inactivity waiting, wait - the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him" repose, rest, ease, relaxation - freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool" idleness, idling, loafing - having no employment delay, holdup - the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity"

inactivity

noun immobility, unemployment, inaction, passivity, hibernation, dormancy The players have comparatively long periods of inactivity.
immobility action, movement, employment, mobility, bustle, exertion, activeness

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

inactivity

noun

A lack of action or activity:

idleness, inaction, inertness, inoperativeness, stagnation.

Translations

عَدَم نَشاط ، عَدَم فعاليَّه

nečinnost

inaktivitetledigganguvirksomhed

óvirkni

inatividade

hareketsizlik

inactivity

[ˌɪnækˈtɪvɪtɪ] N → inactividad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

inactivity

[ˌɪnækˈtɪvɪti] n → inactivité f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

inactivity

n → Untätigkeit f; (of mind) → Trägheit f; (Comm) → Stille f, → Flaute f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

inactivity

[ˌɪnækˈtɪvɪtɪ] n → inattività

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

inactive

(inˈӕktiv) adjective

(formal).

1. not taking much exercise. You're fat because you're so inactive.

2. no longer working, functioning etc; not active. an inactive volcano.

inˈaction noun

inacˈtivity noun

inactivity

n. inactividad;

physical ___ → ___ física.

inactivity

n inactividad f

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I could have burst out crying in my bitter discomfiture, mortification, and alarm: to think that her life was in my hands, and that it depended, not on that prompt action which was the one course I had contemplated, but on twenty-four hours of resolute inactivity! I would not think it.

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Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

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But, after all, it may be good for ships to go through a period of restraint and repose, as the restraint and self- communion of inactivity may be good for an unruly soul - not, indeed, that I mean to say that ships are unruly; on the contrary, they are faithful creatures, as so many men can testify.

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They could suffer solitude, inactivity, and the horrors of a silence that no sound ever disturbed, but they could not bear the thought of being utterly forgotten by the world.

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And Nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all the more depressed.

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Sitting on the heavy potato wagons, wrapped in fog, feet stinging from inactivity, the horses plodding slowly along the deep road through the sandhills, one bright vision made the way never too long.

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One day, however-- sad and melancholy day!-- peace was signed between the survivors of the war; the thunder of the guns gradually ceased, the mortars were silent, the howitzers were muzzled for an indefinite period, the cannon, with muzzles depressed, were returned into the arsenal, the shot were repiled, all bloody reminiscences were effaced; the cotton-plants grew luxuriantly in the well-manured fields, all mourning garments were laid aside, together with grief; and the Gun Club was relegated to profound inactivity.

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During our period of inactivity, Tars Tarkas had instructed me in many of the customs and arts of war familiar to the Tharks, including lessons in riding and guiding the great beasts which bore the warriors.

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We could do nothing but wait in aching inactivity during those two weary days.

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Nay, had she been without his arm, she would soon have known that she needed it, for she wanted strength for a two hours' saunter of this kind, coming, as it generally did, upon a week's previous inactivity. Fanny was beginning to feel the effect of being debarred from her usual regular exercise; she had lost ground as to health since her being in Portsmouth; and but for Mr.

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Joe and Kennedy, reclining at full length near each other, tried, if not in slumber, at least in torpor, to forget their situation, for their forced inactivity gave them periods of leisure far from pleasant.

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He was dandiacally dressed, seemed to tell something under twenty years and had a handsome wistful face atop of a heavy, lumbering, almost corpulent figure, which however did not betoken inactivity; for David's purple hat (a conceit of his mother's of which we were both heartily ashamed) blowing off as we neared him he leapt the railings without touching them and was back with it in three seconds; only instead of delivering it straightway he seemed to expect David to chase him for it.