Crossword clues for inoperative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inoperative \In*op"er*a*tive\, a. [Pref. in- not + operative.] Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 not working or functioning; either idle or broken 2 (context legal English) No longer legally binding
WordNet
adj. not operating; "an inoperative law" [ant: operative]
Usage examples of "inoperative".
Airplanes are designed to be able to fly with one engine inoperative, but the pilots decided to reduce altitude and were beginning to redirect the airplane to a closer airport when the second engine flamed out.
These remodelled tradition, the Apologists made it to some extent inoperative without attacking it.
With the brain inoperative and the navigational computers under exterior control, Kirin had no way of telling where he was or where he was going, except for the one valid set of interstellar signposts, the spectra of the stars themselves.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
Simply out of habit, knowing all the turins were as dead and inoperative as the servitors and electric lights, he aligned the embroidered microcircuits in the cloth with the center of his forehead.
An attempt was made also to prevent fees or robes being given to the masters, but the statute doubtless proved inoperative, and was afterwards repealed.
Data lay stiff and inoperative, and the front of his uniform smoked where her phaser had burned through the fabric and scorched the bioplast sheeting of his chest.
He pointed to a pile of what looked like dirty dressings outside the inoperative elevator.
Afterward, I found that the connection between the instrument-board and the dynamos had been broken, thus rendering the force inoperative.
Number Three is inoperative, with major faults to the bearing ring and alt-azimuth controls.
One of the fusion generators was inoperative, two energy patterning nodes were dead, heat exchangers were operating dangerously short of required levels, innumerable failsoft components had been allowed to decay below their safety margins.
His facial nerves were inoperative, and the muscles of his larynx slack.