Synonyms: inactive
Definition: not active physically or mentally
Usage: illness forced him to live an inactive life; dreamy and inactive by nature
Similar words: desk-bound, deskbound
Definition: restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity
Similar words: dormant, abeyant
Definition: inactive but capable of becoming active
Usage: her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened
Similar words: hypoactive, underactive
Definition: abnormally inactive
Similar words: torpid, inert, soggy, sluggish
Definition: slow and apathetic
Usage: she was fat and inert; a sluggish worker; a mind grown torpid in old age
Similar words: sedentary
Definition: requiring sitting or little activity
Usage: forced by illness to lead a sedentary life
Synonyms: inactive
Definition: not engaged in full-time work
Usage: inactive reserve; an inactive member
Similar words: off
Definition: not performing or scheduled for duties
Usage: He's off every Tuesday
Similar words: retired
Definition: no longer active in your work or profession
Synonyms: inactive
Definition: lacking activity; lying idle or unused
Usage: an inactive mine; inactive accounts; inactive machinery
Similar words: dark
Definition: not giving performances; closed
Usage: the theater is dark on Mondays
Similar words: dead
Definition: devoid of activity
Usage: this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here
Similar words: dull, slow, sluggish
Definition: (of business) not active or brisk
Usage: business is dull (or slow); a sluggish market
Definition: not in active use
Usage: the machinery sat idle during the strike; idle hands
Similar words: strikebound
Definition: closed or immobilized by a strike
Usage: a strikebound airline
Synonyms: inactive
Definition: (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
Similar words: dead-end
Definition: lacking opportunities for development or advancement
Usage: stuck in a dead-end job
Similar words: flat
Definition: commercially inactive
Usage: flat sales for the month; prices remained flat; a flat market
Similar words: indolent
Definition: (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless
Usage: an indolent ulcer; leprosy is an indolent infectious disease
Similar words: latent
Definition: (pathology) not presently active
Usage: latent infection; latent diabetes
Similar words: quiescent
Definition: (pathology) causing no symptoms
Usage: a quiescent tumor
Definition: lacking in energy or will
Usage: Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself- George Meredith
Similar words: hands-off
Definition: not involving participation or intervention
Usage: a hands-off foreign policy
Similar words: resistless, unresisting, supine
Definition: offering no resistance
Usage: resistless hostages; No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried- Theodore Roosevelt
Definition: (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
Usage: a dormant volcano
Similar words: quiescent
Definition: being quiet or still or inactive
Synonyms: inactive
Definition: not exerting influence or change
Similar words: quiescent
Definition: not active or activated
Usage: the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation
Synonyms: motionless, inactive, static, still
Definition: not in physical motion
Usage: the inertia of an object at rest
Synonyms: inactive
Definition: (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert
Usage: desired amounts of inactive chlorine
Similar words: unreactive
Definition: (chemistry) not reacting chemically