Synonyms of the word

inactive

• adj. Not active, temporarily or permanently.
• adj. Not functioning or operating; broken down.
• adj. Retired from duty or service.
• adj. (chemistry) Relatively inert.
• adj. (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.

arrested

• adj. Having been stopped or prevented from developing; terminated prematurely.
• adj. Having been placed under arrest, or having been charged with a crime.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of arrest.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

dead

• adj. (not comparable) No longer living.
• adj. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
• adj. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
• adj. Without emotion.
• adj. Stationary; static.
• adj. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
• adj. Unproductive.
• adj. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without…
• adj. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
• adj. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
• adj. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
• adj. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in…
• adj. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
• adj. (not comparable) Full and complete.
• adj. (not comparable) Exact.
• adj. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
• adj. (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
• adj. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
• adj. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
• adj. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
• adv. (degree) Exactly right.
• adv. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
• adv. As if dead.
• n. (uncountable, singular only, often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
• n. (plural, with "the") Those who have died.
• v. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
• v. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

dead-end

• adj. Going nowhere; blocked.
• v. (US) To come to a dead-end.
• n. A road with no exit.
• n. (by extension, figuratively) A position that offers no hope of progress.

deskbound

• adj. (of an employee) Whose work confines him or her to a desk.

dormant

• adj. Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
• adj. (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

flat

• adj. Having no variations in height.
• adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
• adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or…
• adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
• adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
• adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
• adj. Uninteresting.
• adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the…
• adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
• adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
• adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
• adj. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull.
• adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
• adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
• adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective…
• adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
• adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
• adv. So as to be flat.
• adv. Bluntly.
• adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
• adv. Completely.
• adv. Directly; flatly.
• adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
• n. An area of level ground.
• n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter…
• n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
• n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
• n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
• n. The flat part of something.
• n. A wide, shallow container.
• n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded…
• n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
• n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
• n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
• n. (US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
• n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
• n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a…
• n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
• n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts…
• v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
• v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
• v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
• v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
• v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
• n. (chiefly Britain, New England, New Zealand and Australia, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on…

hands-off

• adj. Tending not to intervene.

hypoactive

• adj. Less than normally active.

idle

• adj. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
• adj. Not being use appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
• adj. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
• adj. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
• adj. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
• adj. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
• v. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
• v. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
• v. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

indolent

• adj. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour.
• adj. Inducing laziness (e.g. indolent comfort).
• adj. (medicine) Causing scant or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
• adj. (medicine) Healing slowly.

inert

• adj. Unable to move or act; inanimate.
• adj. Sluggish or lethargic.
• adj. In chemistry, not readily reacting with other elements or compounds.
• adj. Having no therapeutic action.
• n. (chemistry) A substance that does not react chemically.

latent

• adj. Existing or present but concealed or inactive.
• adj. (pathology, of a virus) remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
• adj. (biology) lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.
• n. (forensics) The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder…
• n. (statistics) An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor.
• n. Anything that is latent.

lethargic

• adj. sluggish, slow.
• adj. indifferent, apathetic.

motionless

• adj. At rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.

nonmoving

• adj. Not moving; stationary; inert.

nonoperational

• adj. not associated with operation.
• adj. not operating; not working.

off

• adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
• adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
• adv. So as to be removed or separated.
• adj. Inoperative, disabled.
• adj. Rancid, rotten.
• adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed…
• adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
• adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
• adj. Started on the way.
• adj. Far; off to the side.
• adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post,…
• adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
• adj. right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle).
• prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on.
• prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
• prep. Away from or not on.
• prep. Disconnected or subtracted from.
• prep. Distant from.
• prep. No longer wanting or taking.
• prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, Singapore) To switch off.
• n. (rare) beginning; starting point.

passive

• adj. Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
• adj. Taking no action.
• adj. (grammar) Being in the passive voice.
• adj. (psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
• adj. (finance) Not participating in management.
• adj. (aviation) Without motive power.
• n. (uncountable, grammar) The passive voice of verbs.
• n. (countable, grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.

quiescent

• adj. Inactive, quiet, at rest.
• adj. (grammar) Not sounded; silent.
• adj. (cell biology) Non-proliferating.

resistless

• adj. That cannot be resisted; irresistible.
• adj. Putting up no resistance; unresisting.

retired

• adj. Secluded from society (of a lifestyle, activity etc.); private, quiet.
• adj. Of a place: far from civilisation, not able to be easily seen or accessed; secluded.
• adj. (of people) Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of retire.

sedentary

• adj. Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
• adj. (medicine, of a job, lifestyle, etc.) Not moving much; sitting around.
• adj. (obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.
• adj. (obsolete) Caused by long sitting.

slow

• adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding…
• adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
• adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
• adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
• adj. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
• adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
• adj. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
• v. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
• v. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
• n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
• n. (music) A slow song.
• adv. Slowly.

sluggish

• adj. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive.
• adj. Slow; having little motion.
• adj. Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
• adj. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
• adj. Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.

soggy

• adj. Soaked with moisture or other liquid.

static

• adj. Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
• adj. Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
• adj. (programming) Occupying fixed memory, allocated when a program is loaded.
• n. (uncountable) Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles…
• n. (by extension, uncountable) Interference or obstruction from people.
• n. (uncountable) Something that is not part of any perceived universe phenomena; having no motion; no particle;…
• n. (uncountable) Static electricity.
• n. (countable, programming) A static variable.

still

• adj. Not moving; calm.
• adj. Not effervescing; not sparkling.
• adj. Uttering no sound; silent.
• adj. (not comparable) Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time.
• adj. Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
• adj. (obsolete) Constant; continual.
• adv. Without motion.
• adv. (aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
• adv. (degree) To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
• adv. (conjunctive) Nevertheless.
• adv. (archaic, poetic) Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.
• adv. (extensive) Even, yet.
• n. A period of calm or silence.
• n. (photography) A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
• n. (slang) A resident of the Falkland Islands.
• n. A steep hill or ascent.
• n. a device for distilling liquids.
• n. (catering) a large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
• n. (catering) the area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
• n. A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
• v. to calm down, to quiet.
• v. (obsolete) To trickle, drip.
• v. To cause to fall by drops.
• v. To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.

strikebound

• adj. Not operating normally because of strike action.

supine

• adj. Lying on its back, reclined.
• adj. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
• adj. Negligent; heedless; listless; lethargic; indifferent.
• adj. Passive.
• n. (grammar) A type of verbal noun.
• n. (grammar) Swedish: verbform in combination with an inflection of ha to form the present perfect and pluperfect.

torpid

• adj. unmoving.
• adj. dormant or hibernating.
• adj. lazy, lethargic or apathetic.
• n. (Britain, Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.

underactive

• adj. Less than normally active.

unmoving

• adj. Not moving; still.
• adj. Not moving or rousing; failing to inspire the emotions.

unreactive

• adj. (chemistry) Not reactive; relatively inert.
• adj. (psychology) That does not respond to a stimulation.

unresisting

• adj. Not resisting; compliant.

unused

• adj. (not comparable) Not used.
• adj. Not accustomed (to), unfamiliar with.