inactive

1 slow to move or act it's easiest to catch snakes early in the morning, while they're still cold and inactive Synonyms of inactive dull, inert, lethargic, quiescent, sleepy, sluggish, torpid Words Related to inactive ambitionless, apathetic, indolent, languorous, lazy, lazyish, listless, shiftless, slack, slothful, sluggard, sluggardly; dormant, inanimate, motionless, resting, sedentary, static, still; dead; dopey (also dopy), drugged; asleep, drowsy, somnambulant; catatonic, comatose Near Antonyms of inactive busy, engaged, occupied, working; animated, bouncing, dynamic, energetic, kinetic, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zippy; assiduous, diligent, hardworking, industrious, sedulous Antonyms of inactive active

2 not being in a state of use, activity, or employment an inactive oil well Synonyms of inactive dead, dormant, fallow, free, idle, inert, inoperative, latent, off, unused, vacant Words Related to inactive abeyant, arrested, interrupted, suspended; unoccupied; asleep, comatose, lifeless, moribund, quiescent, sleepy; inoperable, unusable, unworkable, useless; dull, slow Phrases at rest, on the shelf, out of commission Near Antonyms of inactive functional, operable, operational, workable; assiduous, industrious, sedulous; energetic, vigorous; feasible, practical, usable (also useable), useful, viable Antonyms of inactive active, alive, busy, employed, functioning, going, living, on, operating, operative, running, working