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Inactive

Definitions: Inactive

Inactive

Adjective

1. 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: Inactive

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Inactive

ContextSynonyms 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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Crosswords: Inactive

English words defined with "inactive": abeyant, angiotensin ICameroon, carrier, Cessantdeactivate, dead, Deedless, Defensive proteid, defunct, Dilatory plea, dormancy, dormant, down, duramenEasy-going, emeritus, enterokinase, Etna, extinctfactor IIheartwood, Huainaputina, hypoactiveIn-, in abeyance, In idle, inaction, inactivate, Inactively, inactiveness, inactivity, Inactose, inertia, inositolKlyuchevskayalactic acid, lie dormant, Lymphatic temperamentMesotartaric, Mount Etna, Mt EtnaPassive verb, passiveness, passivity, penicillinase-resistant antibiotic, plasminogen, Poppied, prepupal, proenzyme, prothrombin, pupa, Puracequiescence, quiescency, quiescentracemic acid, rest, retired, reviveSangay, Sedent, sit back, sit by, Slack-water navigation, sleeping, stand, suspendedtartaric acid, To lie low, trypsinogen, TupungatitoUnactive, underactiveValericwait, waitingzymogen. (references)
Specialty definitions using "inactive": Active Storage Capacity, Active Conservation Storage, active entity, Angiotensinogen, Angiotensins, AnistreplaseBiotransformation, BMFCannabinol, Chlamydiales, Complement 3 Nephritic Factor, Complement 3b Inactivators, Complement Factor D, CpG Islandsdark fiber, dark fibre, dead-man, DNA Transposable Elements, dominant-negativeEducation, Professional, Retraining, Enzyme Precursorsfixed pupil, functional statusgenetic decoy, Glycogen-Synthase-D Phosphatase, governmental unitHeterochromatin, Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins, hot money, hot-metal mixerIAW, I-kappa B, inactive account, inactive entity, Inactive File, inactive leg, inactive stateKaposi Varicelliform EruptionLive CapacityMetanephrine, mineral inventory, MSA methanometerpassive margin, perpetual transfer, Phosphorylase b, Phosphorylase Phosphatase, Photosensitizing Agents, prekiller T lymphocyte, probacteriophage, prodrug, Proenzymes, prophage, pupillatoniaquiesce time, quiescent telecontrol systemracemic tartaric acid, Records management, RECORDS-MANAGEMENT ANALYST, RGS ProteinsSodium Lactate, Spores, Bacterial, statistical time division multiplexing. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Inactive

DomainTitle

Books

  • Caring About Inactive Church Members (reference)

  • Catholics Can Come Home Again: A Guide for the Journey of Reconciliation With Inactive Catholics (reference)

  • How to Reach Out to Inactive Catholics (reference)

  • Inactive Catholics (reference)

  • Landings Coordinator's Guide: A Parish Ministry for Reconciling Inactive Catholics (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Inactive

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Photo Album: Inactive

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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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Inactive

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Inactive

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)98.73%31216,340
Noun (common)1.27%4175,879
                    Total100.00%316N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Inactive

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Inactive

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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20

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17

inactive ready reserve

7

hide icon inactive

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inactive medical record

3

inactive tb

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inactive volcano

2

inactive symptom thyroid

2

inactive tuberculosis

2

inactive reserve

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Inactive

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

   

Portuguese

  

inactivo. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

бездеятельный (inoperative, passive, torpid), бездействующий (dormant, out-of-operation, out-of-service). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neaktivan (passive). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inactivo (deedless, dormant, dull, quiescent, sluggish, slumberous, stagnant, static). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inaktiv (dormant, idle). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เกียจคร้าน (idle, laze, lazy), ซึ่งไม่ไ"้ใช้งาน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

бездіяльний (deedless, dormant, easeful, effortless, indolent, killed, otiose, shiftless, torpid, vacuous). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thiếu hoạt động (inanimate), không hoạt động (dead-alive, supine), ì (inert). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

anfywiol (inanimate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Inactive

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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)

Avestan200-600

everezike. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Inactive

Derivations

Words beginning with "inactive": inactively. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Inactive"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "inactive" (pronounced i'na"ktiv)
5-a" k t i vactive, attractive, hyperactive, interactive, overactive, proactive, radioactive, reactive, refractive, retroactive, unattractive.
4-k t i vaddictive, 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 vabortive, 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.

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Anagrams: Inactive

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Inactive


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 61 63 74 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    .-    -.-.    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#97 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4380676986758871

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INDEX

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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