Crossword clues for inert
inert
- Unwilling to move
- Unlikely to react
- Unable to react chemically
- Totally unreactive
- Utterly lethargic
- Unlikely to move
- Slow to act
- Not exactly active
- Not at all active
- Like neon and argon
- Like liquid nitrogen
- Unlikely to form compounds
- Not reactive, as some gases
- Nonreactive, as helium
- Like xenon or radon
- Like xenon or krypton
- Like the noble gases
- Like krypton and xenon
- Like argon and krypton
- Like a pocketful of krypton
- Lethargic, perhaps
- Disinclined to move
- Chemically comatose
- Certain gases
- Word for krypton
- Unmotivated, and then some
- Unlike a reactant
- Unable to react
- Totally lacking in pizzazz
- Slow to react
- Slow to move
- Slow and apathetic
- Showing little energy
- Powerless to act
- Physically inactive
- Perfectly still
- Opposite of active
- Not stirring
- Not so moving?
- Not reactant
- Not mobile
- Not chemically reactive
- Nonreactive, like some gases
- Nonreactive, like helium or neon
- Nonreactive, like a chemical element
- Nonreactive, in chemistry
- Nonreactive, as some gases
- Nonreactive, as neon
- Nonreactive, as gases
- Nonreactive in the lab
- Non-reactive, like some gases
- Non-reactive, like a gas
- Likely to stay put
- Like xenon or neon
- Like xenon and neon
- Like xenon and krypton
- Like xenon and helium
- Like the gases neon and argon, but not oxygen and hydrogen
- Like some gas elements
- Like rare gases
- Like neon, chemically
- Like neon or helium
- Like neon or argon
- Like neon and helium
- Like most elements ending in "-on"
- Like low-energy gases
- Like krypton or radon
- Like krypton and some other gases
- Like helium or neon
- Like helium and neon
- Like group 18 elements
- Like gases in the rightmost column of the periodic table
- Like gas that just sits there
- Like gas that can't pass?
- Like dead weight
- Like cellulose
- Like atoms with complete valence shells
- Like an unreactive gas
- Like a sluggish gas
- Like a nonreactive element
- Like a dead weight
- Lacking motion
- Krypton descriptor
- Inactive, sluggish, etc
- Inactive, chemically
- Inactive, as gases
- Immobilized, as a gas
- Helium, chemically
- Having limited ability to react
- Hardly moving
- Hard to combine
- Descriptive of neon
- Couchbound, perhaps
- Chemically "quiet"
- Still
- Chemically nonreactive, as a gas
- Not moving at all
- Like krypton or xenon
- Noble, in a way
- Not active, chemically
- Like some gases
- Like helium, e.g.
- Sluggish by nature
- Motionless
- Just sitting there, as a gas
- Powerless to move
- Lifeless and motionless
- Unmoving
- Like 11-Down
- Dead to the world, as a chemical
- Unreactive, to a chemist
- Like helium, chemically
- Like a couch potato
- Comatose, chemically
- Not reacting chemically
- Immobile, as a gas
- Static
- Stagnant, gas-wise
- Very slow-moving
- Not merely sluggish
- Like a bump on a log
- Sitting around
- Apt to stay put
- Like neon and xenon
- Chemically quiet
- Like xenon, as gases go
- Hard to get a reaction out of?
- Like noble gases
- Hard to combine, chemically
- Nonreactive, chemically
- Like radon, say
- Unable to move
- Stationary
- ___ gas
- Not showing much life
- Unable to react, as helium
- Like propellants in pesticides
- Like atoms with full outer shells
- Like argon or neon
- Very sluggish
- Dormant
- Not quick to react
- Like 47 Across
- Torpid
- Powerless to act, as a gas
- Like neon or xenon
- Without power to act
- Like argon or krypton
- Passive
- Naturally sluggish
- More than lethargic
- Adjective for argon or neon
- Exanimate
- Supine
- Dull; slow
- Adjective for neon
- Like neon gas
- Otiose
- Neutral
- Kind of gas
- Quiescent
- Leaden
- Constituents of nitre surprisingly chemically inactive
- Chemically inactive
- With temperature dropping, bury dead
- Where Victoria found love, priest's vestment not required, still
- Still in tears periodically during sex
- Sluggish ferrets regularly found beneath home
- Not reactive or interactive
- Nitre treated like nitrogen
- Like some gases examiner tests partly
- I try fishing around river without much activity
- I rent, poor and lazy
- He is this geek, mostly enthralled by computers
- Doing nothing
- Not doing anything
- Not going anywhere
- Type of gas
- At a standstill
- Lacking vigor
- Not reactive, as gases
- Lacking energy
- Without energy
- Like couch potatoes
- Like a noble gas
- Lacking liveliness
- Chemically unreactive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonmoving \nonmoving\ adj. Not moving. Opposite of moving. [Narrower terms: at rest, inactive, motionless, static, still; becalmed ; {dead(prenominal), stagnant, standing(prenominal), still; frozen(predicate), rooted(predicate), stock-still ; {inert ; {sitting ; {slack ; {stationary ; {immobile, unmoving] Also See: immobile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from French inerte (16c.) or directly from Latin inertem (nominative iners) "unskilled, inactive, helpless, sluggish, worthless," from in- "without" + ars (genitive artis) "skill" (see art (n.)). Originally of matter; specifically of gases from 1885. Of persons or creatures, from 1774.
Wiktionary
a. 1 unable to move or act; inanimate. 2 sluggish or lethargic. 3 In chemistry, not readily reacting with other elements or compounds. 4 Having no therapeutic action. n. (context chemistry English) A substance that does not react chemically.
WordNet
adj. unable to move or resist motion
having only a limited ability to react chemically; not active; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction" [syn: indifferent, neutral]
slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: sluggish, torpid]
Wikipedia
In English, to be inert is to be in a state of doing little or nothing.
Usage examples of "inert".
Fifth Level of Complexity as far beyond intelligence as intelligence is from amoebic life, or life from inert matter.
Unlike the Great Temple, which had been given new life as the home of the Jedi praexeum, Atun had been left as it had been found, its mechanisms inert, its passageways dark.
Further, behavioral research efforts by law enforcement agencies is important to their development of additional skill in reading the seemingly inert characteristics of crime scene evidence.
Other workers shoveled the debris left by the process into biofilter bins, where the inert black rock disappeared, to leave only dilithium chips.
The molecule may be enzymatically active in one shape and inert in the other, like a shoehorn that sometimes warps into worthlessness.
Many vegetable extracts are inert, because the plants from which they are produced were not gathered at the proper time.
The old neighborhoods of Shanghai, Feedless or with overhead Feeds kludged in on bamboo stilts, seemed frighteningly inert, like an opium addict squatting in the middle of a frenetic downtown street, blowing a reed of sweet smoke out between his teeth, staring into some ancient dream that all the bustling pedestrians had banished to unfrequented parts of their minds.
When the blast struck the Veil the hyperexcited ions metamorphosed into inert pebbles that dropped to the floor in an impotent clatter.
Bajorans whose names Keogh did not know were now poking at the machine, which lay inert in the soil.
The only way the associated life of such a community can be radically improved is by the leavening of the inert popular mass.
These inconceivably gigantic and mysterious masses had existed in space for an infinitely long time, secretly drawing into their inert ocean everything that came within reach of the inescapable tentacles of their gravity.
Maybe they were too scared that in Methuselah they glimpsed the inert grey hulk of their own futures.
The chambers not only were filled with a completely inert and nonflammable material but were given multiple antiblast, antiradiation, antianything drop shields.
It looks like an inert mineral, but it definitely has an organometallic component.
There are also bracts, consisting of inert, scalelike organisms that fit over the stem and help protect it from physical damage.