Definitions for inactive

inactive in·ac·tive

Spelling: [in-ak-tiv]
IPA: /ɪnˈæk tɪv/

Inactive is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in inactive (aceiintv).

Definitions for inactive

adjective

  1. not active:
  2. sedentary or passive:
  3. sluggish; indolent.
  4. Military. not on active duty.
  5. Chemistry. inert; unreactive. noting a compound that has no effect on polarized light.

Origin of inactive

First recorded in 1715-25; in-3 + active

Examples for inactive

For the remaining part of the year 1811 both armies were inactive.

So, we can be inactive in ordinary markets in a way we cannot be for health care, where illness thrusts activity upon us.

Women who were active most days were more than three times more likely to have fertility problems than inactive women.

Washington lay for a while inactive while the enemy prepared for their departure.

Others, who demanded revenge, found an aliment for their inactive forces.

It is well for us that they will now be forced to be inactive.

In online-dating speak, these inactive users are known as “date bait.”

Arulanandam says it is “overly generous” to say that gun control groups are moribund and inactive.

The demolition work also is predicted to be more complicated because of inactive utility lines.

If the imagination intoxicates the poet, it is not inactive in other men.

Word Value for inactive
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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