Thesaurus:inactive

Thesaurus

inactive

English

Adjective

Sense: not active

Synonyms

• abeyant
• at rest
• cessant (obsolete)
• dormant
• fallow (figuratively)
• inactive
• inert
• latent
• nonactive
• quiescent
• silent    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sedentary (obsolete)
• slow    [⇒ thesaurus]
• suspended
• torpid
• unactive

Antonyms

• active    [⇒ thesaurus]
• in action    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• asleep    [⇒ thesaurus]
• calm    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dead    [⇒ thesaurus]
• hibernating
• lazy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• stationary    [⇒ thesaurus]
• vegetative

See also

• Thesaurus:delayed

Further reading

• “683. inactivity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “inactive” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.