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Definitions: Inactive |
InactiveAdjective1. Not participating in a chemical reaction; "desired amounts of inactive chlorine". 2. (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly. 3. Not active or exerting influence. 4. Of e.g. volcanos; permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano". 5. Of e.g. volcanos; temporarily inactive; "a dormant volcano". 6. Lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith. 7. Lacking activity; lying idle or unused; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery". 8. Not engaged in full-time work; "inactive reserve" (military) ; "an inactive member of the department". 9. Not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature". 10. : not engaged in military action. 11. : not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest". 12. : temporarily inactive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inactive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Inactive \In*ac"tive\, adjective. [Prefix in- not active: compare to the French expression inactif.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: InactiveSynonyms: abeyant (adj), at rest (adj), dormant (adj), extinct (adj), in abeyance(p) (adj), motionless (adj), passive (adj), reserve(a) (adj), static (adj), still (adj), suspended (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: active (adj), dormant (adj), extinct (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inaction | Verb: not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive; abstain from doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone; quieta non movere; stare super antiquas vias; rest and be thankful, live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser aller, faire; stand aloof; refrain; (avoid) keep oneself from doing; remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts; desist; (relinquish); stop; (cease); pause; (be quiet). |
Inactivity | Verb: be inactive; Adjective: do nothing; move slowly; let the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile. |
Adjective: inactive; motionless; unoccupied; (doing nothing) unbusied. | |
Insensibility | Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken. |
Lateness | Verb: be late; Adjective: tarry, wait, stay, bide, take time; dawdle; (be inactive); linger, loiter; bide one's time, take one's time; gain time; hang fire; stand over, lie over. |
Neglect | Supine; (inactive); inattentive; insouciant; (indifferent); imprudent, reckless; slovenly; (disorderly), (dirty); inexact; (erroneous); improvident. |
Physical Inertness | Adjective: inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential. |
Slowness | Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late). |
Adjective: slow, slack; tardy; dilatory; (inactive); gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping; Verb: reptatorial. | |
Time | Pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity; waste time; (be inactive). |
Unskillfulness | Inapt, unapt; inhabile; untractable, unteachable; giddy; (inattentive); inconsiderate; (neglectful); stupid; inactive; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified; unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice. |
Untimeliness | Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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![]() | Inactive hydrothermal chimneys made of iron oxide on Loihi volcano.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ![]() | Decommissioning party salutes the colors, as Kearsarge goes out of commission for the last time, at Long Beach, California, 13 February 1970. Those present are (from left to right): Captain Frederick W. Zigler, USN, Commanding Officer, Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility; Rear Admiral Norman C. Gillette, USN, Commander Anti-Submarine Warfare Group Three; Rear Admiral William T. Rassieur, USN(Retired), former Commanding Officer of the ship; Captain Leonard M. Nearman, USN, ship's Commanding Officer; and Mr. C.E. (Gene) Gallman, representing the Mayor of Long Beach.Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Poster from the "What the Navy is Doing" series, published by the Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York, circa 1919. Text below the pictures reads: "The above views were taken at one of our Naval Hospitals, which has adopted a method of keeping convalescent patients occupied and thus relieving the monotony of this inactive period. The men are taught to make various articles, such as rugs, leather purses and knotted belts. These articles are sold and the proceeds given to the men. Special attention is paid to those maimed during the war, who are being trained to care for themselves in spite of their injuries.".Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Inactive steel mills. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | One of the main buildings of the Burro Mountain Copper Company, now inactive, at Tyrone, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | One of the main buildings of the Burro Mountain Copper Company, now inactive, at Tyrone, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | One of the main buildings with town square in foreground of the Burro Mountain Copper Company, now inactive, at Tyrone, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Tyrone, New Mexico, a town developed by the Burro Mountain Copper Company, now inactive, but which is developing the town as a summer resort.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Blue and black denote inactive areas. (references) | |
Still, placebos are considered controversial because by definition they are inactive and have no actual curative value. (references) | ||
Even after the sores are gone, the virus stays inside the nerve cells in a still and hidden state, which means that it's inactive. (references) | ||
Business | Firms such as Care mark, Watakyu are fairly inactive at present. (references) | |
While banks and financial-industrial groups have retained their nominal ownership of leasing companies, these companies are either entirely inactive or carrying out a minimal level of activity and their level of activity continues to shrink. (references) | ||
Italian firms also enjoyed a price advantage in the past. Service and the availability of parts, often a problem with imports in the past, is such an important factor that if an importer cannot clearly demonstrate parts availability the market will not buy. When we asked why U.S. firms did not have a larger share of the market we were told that they have been relatively inactive in promoting their products in the past and are now subject to significant price disadvantages. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Brunei | Until its October meeting, the party appeared to be largely inactive and marked by internal strife. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | The reason given was that Nzogo supposedly was not qualified for the position; he was not reinstated to his position during the year, and ASOPGE was inactive. (references) | |
Yemen | In June Sawt al-Mu'arada, the official publication of the National Opposition Council, one of the country's two coalitions of opposition parties, resumed publication after being inactive for 5 years. (references) | |
Economic History | Yemen | In the wake of the Gulf crisis, the ACC has remained inactive. (references) |
Cyprus | The Central Bank systematically deletes companies which are inactive or fail to submit annual accounts. (references) | |
Equatorial Guinea | Luba is located some 50 kilometers from Malabo and had been virtually inactive except for minor fishing activities and occasional use to ease congestion in Malabo. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | The case is believed to be inactive. (references) |
Yemen | The YHRO appeared to be inactive during the year. (references) | |
Haiti | In both cases, the HNP's investigations remain open but by all accounts are inactive. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Brazil | However, no additional information was available about the case and it appears to be inactive. (references) |
Honduras | The Congress also created a commission to study indigenous land claims, which often conflict with the claims of small farmers, but the commission was largely inactive. (references) | |
Political Economy | Angola | The Peace and Reconciliation Commission was established in January and received a $20 million government appropriation; however, it largely was inactive during the year. (references) |
Political Rights | Zimbabwe | Legal rights activists accused the Speaker of preventing the committee from meeting or holding hearings; the committee was inactive by year's end. (references) |
Trade | Eq. Guinea | Similarly, the Africa Development Bank has been relatively inactive in Equatorial Guinea. (references) |
Brazil | In the case of pharmaceutical drugs and cosmetics, one must inform the active and inactive ingredients. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Belize | However, several of these unions are inactive. (references) |
Dominican Republic | CIPROM was inactive until February, when it began meeting regularly. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | There are 3,506 registered unions in the country, but it is estimated that 60 percent are inactive. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inactive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.73% of the time. "Inactive" is used about 316 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.73% | 312 | 16,340 |
| Noun (common) | 1.27% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 316 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "inactive": at rest inactive motionless static still ♦ be inactive ♦ inactive file ♦ inactive life ♦ inactive state ♦ inactive tartaric acid ♦ inactive valeric acid ♦ optically inactive. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "inactive": now-inactive, raman-inactive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inactive thyroid | 20 |
inactive | 17 |
inactive ready reserve | 7 |
hide icon inactive | 3 |
inactive medical record | 3 |
inactive tb | 3 |
inactive volcano | 2 |
inactive symptom thyroid | 2 |
inactive tuberculosis | 2 |
inactive reserve | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inactive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i plogësht (torpid), pasiv (lukewarm, passive), mosveprues (inoperative), jo aktiv (passive, torpid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كسلان (drone, indolent, lie-abed, truant), كسول (dull, idle, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lumpish, passive, shiftless, slothful, slow, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, supine), متراخ (indolent), متبطل (idle, jobless, unemployed, workless), غير فعال (feckless, feeble, ineffectual, inefficient, inert, inoperative, passive), غير مستخدم (unemployed), غير عامل, خامل (idle, lazy, sleepy, sluggish, torpid), خامد (calm, silent, still), جامد (hard, immobile, indeclinable, inert, inflexible, insensible, motionless, muscle bound, rigid, solid, standstill, static, stationary, stiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неактивен, муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inert, laggard, languid, long, phlegmatic, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, sulky, sullen, supine, tardy), запасен (emergency, reserve, reserved), бездеен (helter-skelter, idle, indolent, inert, inoperative, passive, sluggish, supine, torpid), без работа (easeful, idle, workless), пасивен (passive, static, vegetable), инертен (dead, dormant, inert, nerveless, passive, phlegmatic, quiescent, stationary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 遲 " (obtuse), 不活泼 (inactivity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | inertní (inert), zahálèivý (idle, lazy), nejsoucí v provozu (unused), neèinný (dormant, idle, inert, passive, vacant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | inaktiv (sedentary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | inactief. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناکنش ور, کساد (Insensitive, Off, Slack, Sluggish, Stagnant, Tight), غیرفعال (Passive), تنبل (Idle, Indolent, Laze, Lazy, Lazybones, Sloth, Slothful, Slouch, Slow, Sluggish, Tardy), سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), خنثی (Eunuch, Hermaprodite, Neuter, Neutral), بی کاره , بی حال (Lackadaisical, Languid, Slothful, Stolid), بی جنبش (Immobile, Tranquil), بی اثر (Feckless, Indfferent, Ineffective, Ineffectual, Nude, Nugatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toimeton (idle, unemployed), tehoton (ineffective, ineffectual), joutilas (at leisure, at liberty, free, unoccupied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inactif (inert). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | inaktiv (inactiv, inert, non-active, unactive), untätig (dormant, idle, idly, inactively, passive, quiescent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άπρακτοσ, αδρανήσ (abeyant, inert, inoperative, nerveless, remiss, shiftless), αδρανής (idle, inert). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לא פעיל (dormant, inert, out), א"יש (apathetic, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, listless, sluggish, torpid, unconcerned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tunya (bovine, laggard, languid, lazy, slack, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, stolid, torpid), tétlen (be inactive, idle, Idler, indolent, inert, inoperative, leisured, passive, quiescent, sluggish, torpid, unemployed, vacuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inattivo (dormant, idle, INOP, inoperative, quiescent, standing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 非活動 , 低調 (dullness, low tone, slack, slow, sluggish, undertone, weakness), 不活発 (dull, lethargic, quiet, slow, sluggish), 不活溌 (dull, lethargic, quiet, slow, sluggish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひかつどう, ふかっぱつ (dull, lethargic, quiet, slow, sluggish), ていちょう (captain, courteous, dullness, hospitable, low tide, low tone, polite, slack, slow, sluggish, undertone, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비활동성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuvioyral, neuvioyr (flat, flat mood, listless, moribund, run-down, spiritless, tame), neuharroogh (careless, idling, slothful, unindustrious), neughastey (inexpert), lhiastey (diffident, dilatory, idle, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, reluctant, remiss, slothful, workshy), lhiastagh (haggler, idle, indolent, languid, latecomer, lethargic, lethargical, loath, moribund, remiss, slothful, sluggish), gyn lheihll (impotent, moribund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | uvirksom (idle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inactiveay inactivo. (various references) inert (dull, inanimate, indifferent, inert, inertly, lazy, nerveless, passive, sluggish), inactiv (dead, dormant, flat, idle, inoperative, passive, slow, unemployed), trândav (easeful, idle, lazy, sluggard, sluggish, truant, vacant), pasiv (languid, liability, passive, passively, quiescent, recumbent, tame, unemployed). (various references) бездеятельный (inoperative, passive, torpid), бездействующий (dormant, out-of-operation, out-of-service). (various references) neaktivan (passive). (various references) inactivo (deedless, dormant, dull, quiescent, sluggish, slumberous, stagnant, static). (various references) inaktiv (dormant, idle). (various references) เกียจคร้าน (idle, laze, lazy), ซึ่งไม่ไ"้ใช้งาน. (various references) tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slacker, slothful, slouch, slug, sluggard, sluggish, stagnant, tired, torpid, workshy), pasif (nonviolent, non-violent, passive, quiescent), nötr (neutral), hareketsiz (at rest, dormant, flat, immobile, in repose, inert, motionless, ponderous, put, quiescent, sleepy, stagnant, staring, stationary, still, stock-still, tepid), etkisiz (impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inoperative, nerveless, noneffective, non-effective, spent), durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless), atıl (fecal, inert, unemployed, unproductive), çalışmayan (at rest, idle, inoperative, leisured). (various references) бездіяльний (deedless, dormant, easeful, effortless, indolent, killed, otiose, shiftless, torpid, vacuous). (various references) thiếu hoạt động (inanimate), không hoạt động (dead-alive, supine), ì (inert). (various references) anfywiol (inanimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cessa, cessabant, cessabis, cessabit, cessabunt, cessamus, cessantibus, cessare, cessarit, cessassent, cessasset, cessat, cessate, cessatum, cessaverat, cessaverit, cessaverunt, cessavi, cessavimus, cessavit, cessavitque, cessem, cessent, cesseris, cesses, cesset, cessetque, cesso, praecessor, reside, segnes, supinus, torpeo. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | everezike. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inactive": inactively. (additional references) | |
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"Inactive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ignatiev, inactiva, inative, intactae, Ipatyev. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inactive" (pronounced i'na"ktiv) |
| 5 | -a" k t i v | active, attractive, hyperactive, interactive, overactive, proactive, radioactive, reactive, refractive, retroactive, unattractive. |
| 4 | -k t i v | addictive, adjective, affective, collective, conductive, connective, constructive, corrective, counterproductive, defective, destructive, detective, directive, distinctive, effective, elective, ineffective, infective, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, introspective, invective, irrespective, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, perspective, photoconductive, predictive, productive, projective, prospective, protective, reconstructive, reflective, reproductive, respective, restrictive, retrospective, seductive, selective, subjective, superconductive, unproductive, vindictive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-n-t-v" | |
-1 letter: venatic. | |
-2 letters: acetin, active, centai, enatic, incite, invite, native, viatic. | |
-3 letters: acini, actin, antic, cavie, civet, civie, enact, entia, evict, naevi, naive, tenia, tinea, vatic, vinca, vinic, vitae. | |
-4 letters: acne, ante, anti, cain, cane, cant, cate, cave, cent, cine, cite, etic, etna, inia, inti, nave, neat, nevi, nice, nite, tace, tain, tine, vain, vane, vein, vena, vent, vice, vina, vine, vita. | |
-5 letters: ace, act, ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, ave, can, cat, eat, eta, ice, nae, net, nit, tae, tan, tav, tea, ten, tic, tie, tin, vac, van, vat, vet, via, vie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-n-t-v" | |
+1 letter: vindicate. | |
+2 letters: inactivate, inactively, inchoative, incubative, indicative, vaticinate, vesicating, vindicated, vindicates. | |
+3 letters: carminative, combinative, concavities, inactivated, inactivates, inchoatives, indicatives, inoculative, interactive, intervallic, valediction, vaticinated, vaticinates, vindicative. | |
+4 letters: anticreative, antiviolence, carminatives, conciliative, continuative, coordinative, deactivating, deactivation, denunciative, equivocating, equivocation, evangelistic, eviscerating, evisceration, inactivities, inchoatively, indicatively, intervocalic, inveteracies, negativistic, nonaddictive, outachieving, reactivating, reactivation, renunciative, revictualing, valedictions, verification, vesiculating, vesiculation, vociferating, vociferation. | |
+5 letters: adventuristic, anticorrosive, biconcavities, cantilevering, communicative, configurative, contaminative, deactivations, equivocations, eviscerations, incorporative, interactively, noncreativity, prevaricating, prevarication, ratiocinative, reactivations, recriminative, recultivating, revaccinating, revaccination, revictualling, significative, underactivity, valedictorian, vasectomizing, verifications, vermiculation, versification, vesiculations, vivisectional, vociferations, volcanicities, vulcanicities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 61 63 74 69 76 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. .- -.-. - .. ...- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n a c t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0061 0063 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380676986758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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