Definitions for inert

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inert in·ert

Spelling: [in-urt, ih-nurt]

IPA: /ɪnˈɜrt, ɪˈnɜrt/

Inert is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in inert (einrt).

Definitions for inert

adjective

1. having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
2. Chemistry. having little or no ability to react, as nitrogen that occurs uncombined in the atmosphere.
3. Pharmacology. having no pharmacological action, as the excipient of a pill.
4. inactive or sluggish by habit or nature.

Origin of inert

1640-50; Latin inert- (stem of iners) unskillful, equivalent to in- in-³ + -ert-, combining form of art- (stem of ars) skill; see art

Examples for inert

The oath of office is in effect a promise—cross my heart and hope to die—never to be inactive or inert.

Surrounded by inert goods, we felt hemmed in, pushed toward a lifestyle cul-de-sac.

There he saw the inert figures of the girl, and Tom Franklin.

And when bending over that inert face I felt that there was no longer any breath!

(The choppy, inert 2000 TV movie with Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd barely registered a blip).

Instead of upending the genre as Joe Millionaire did, the inert Harry mostly shows how much things have changed since then.

Is the market an inert force to be manipulated and exploited, to deprive it of hard-earned cash?

The chauffeur got down, shook his fare by the arm, and the arm was inert.

Johnny Rosenfeld still lay in his ward, inert from the waist down.

An atom of any kind is not the inert thing it has been supposed to be, for it can do something.