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nonoperative

a. not using a medical operation; not requiring surgery

Usage examples of "nonoperative".

The heater was nonoperative, and steam rose in clouds from the PyroMug of cvceese' Brim held in his gloves.

Hishkan's office, the small, all-essential coordinating device without which the artificial asteroid from the cosmic cloud was a nonoperative, useless, meaningless lump of deteriorating machinery.

Seven of my on-board chronographs are either damaged or nonoperative, but on checking the eighth I am shocked to discover that I have been deactivated only a few hours.