inactive
inactive
Definition
in·ac·tive (in ak′tiv)
adjective
- not active or moving
- not inclined to act; idle; dull; sluggish
- not in use or force; not functioning
- not in active service in the armed forces
- not affecting the plane of polarized light: said of some isomers of certain optically active crystalline substances
- chemically inert
inactive
Synonyms
inactive
modif.
inactive
Usage Examples
Preposition: for
- period: Thomas Telford reserves the right to log off accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time.
- minute: Once logged in, if the user's web browser remains inactive for 10 minutes, they will automatically be logged out.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- render: Uniquely, the technique does not render the viruses inactive.
Modifies a noun
- p53: This meant that in the analysis, inactive p53 was ignored.
- metabolite: Oxprenolol is excreted chiefly in the urine ( almost exclusively in the form of inactive metabolites ).
- conformation: The kinase is in the inactive conformation, similar to that observed for inactive CDK2.
- precursor: Clot dissolution requires a further protease, plasmin, which is incorporated into the forming clot as an inactive precursor, plasminogen.
- ingredient: Refer to Section 6.1 for details of inactive ingredients.
- volcano: Those who reach this point have the rare chance to see the wondrous crater of this inactive volcano.
Modifying Another Word
- 'economically: However, there are another 200,000 people defined as 'economically inactive ' , who say they would like to work.
- optically: This is known as a racemic mixture and it is optically inactive due to one isomer canceling out the optical effect of the other.
- physically: Physically inactive people have about double the risk of CHD.
- politically: All of the successful candidates have confirmed that they are politically inactive.
- relatively: The market was also relatively inactive during the period of the General Election in May.
Used with adjective complement
- remain: In these people, the TB bacteria remain inactive for a lifetime without causing disease.
- render: As a result many local businesses have been rendered totally inactive over the busy Bank Holiday weekend.
- become: Over a third of movers to JSA from IB had become inactive due to sickness or disability five to ten months later.
- lie: Thus in winter they lie inactive in their nests; in summer, they grow lively again.
- seem: The fact that God seems inactive, even absent, should not fool us or worry us.
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