Definitions for inoperative

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inoperative in·op·er·a·tive

Spelling: [in-op-er-uh-tiv, -op-ruh-tiv, - Inoperative is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 823 anagrams from letters in inoperative (aeeiinoprtv).

Definitions for inoperative

adjective

1. not operative; not in operation.
2. without effect:
3. no longer in effect; void; canceled:

Origin of inoperative

First recorded in 1625-35; in-³ + operative

Examples for inoperative

In some cases they restrain individuals; upon the aggregate they are inoperative.

If the mainspring is bad or inoperative, break it, and choose another.

Like the previous legislation, however, the act of 1872 was inoperative.

They were saluted with a volley of musketry, all but inoperative.

As a craft stands on the ground, its planes are inoperative.

Or, as we say in Washington, “My prior statement is inoperative.”

If these sections do not bind the Crown they are meaningless and inoperative.

Any manual controls would be inoperative by the pilot in any case.

If it stands still in the air its planes are inoperative, and it falls.

The only things left, then, were the inoperative ideas of States.