DECOMMISSIONED Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

decommissioned

adjective

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Recent Examples of decommissioned In August, an 18-year-old was critically hurt after falling 20 stories from a decommissioned grain elevator in south Minneapolis. — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 University doctoral researcher Lisa Piller leads the project, which uses decommissioned uniforms from Western Australia’s Parks and Wildlife Service. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026 Allen compared restarting a decommissioned nuclear plant to restarting a car that sat idle for a few years. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026 The site is the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal, a decommissioned Army base near the Port of Oakland run by developer Phil Tagami, who has been trying for years to turn it into a marine shipping terminal. — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026 In 2008, the public-school district of Ridgway, a town north of Ouray, donated a decommissioned school bus to Ouray Mountain Rescue. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 Back in present day, John has managed to exhume Hal’s body and retrieve the decommissioned power ring, awakening the Halogram to get his help opening the lockbox in the storage unit. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2026 Pleasure-seekers would travel by train to open prairies and plains to watch decommissioned locomotives crash into each other. — Caitlín Doherty, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026 To attempt to refine this, Nova has bought a decommissioned existing plant plus other equipment. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026

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Adjective

Most traditional flu shots use a deactivated version of the virus — often grown in eggs — to teach the immune system how to fight it.

— Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2026
In people with the natural mutation, every cell in the body has the deactivated ANGPTL3 gene.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of deactivated

Adjective

When those forces are lacking, as is generally the case in softer tissue, YAP and TAZ remain inactive and stay put outside of the nucleus.

— Karin Wuertz-Kozak, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026
But in many cases, recovery doesn’t mean becoming completely inactive.

— Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of inactive

Adjective

Beetz is phenomenal as a young woman rocked by her own broken family history, willing to put herself in harm’s way to stop Jurek’s terror.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026
Sculptural and subversive, it’s made from broken windows, melted glass bottles, and is repurposed using old engine oil as fuel.

— Vy Yang, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of broken

Adjective

If the main engines were to become inoperative, six smaller orbit-control thrusters can still be activated on the lunar surface, providing an alternative pathway for a rapid ascent.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026
And there’s been plenty of media focus since then — including on inoperative toilets.

— Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of inoperative

Adjective

Drivers say their contract issues center on pay as well as safety issues, including nonfunctioning heaters, loudspeakers and windshield wipers.

— Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
In 2020, the state of Virginia passed some bills limiting pretextual traffic stops—for example, when police spot nonfunctioning brake or tail lights or hear an overly loud exhaust system.

— Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023

Definition of nonfunctioning

Adjective

The law makes a distinction between ‘useful’ creations that cannot be copyrighted, including most clothing, and nonfunctional sculptural works like jewelry that may be eligible for copyright protection.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
Subsense showed off a nonfunctional mock-up of a cap that looked like a cross between a baseball cap and a bike helmet.

— Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

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