The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unactive \Un*ac"tive\, a. Inactive; listless. [R.]
While other animals unactive range.
--Milton.
Unactive \Un*ac"tive\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + active; or from
unactive, a.]
To render inactive or listless. [Obs.]
--Fuller.
Wiktionary
a. Not active; inactive.
Usage examples of "unactive".
Private, unactive, calm, contemplative, Little suspicious to any king.
Where birth is respected, unactive, spiritless minds remain in haughty indolence, and dream of nothing but pedigrees and genealogies: the generous and ambitious seek honour and authority, and reputation and favour.
Strength of the Scorching Sun stinks and poisons the distrest Mariners, who are rendered unactive, and disabled by Scurvies, raging and mad with Calentures and Fevers, and drop into Death in such a Manner, that at last the Living are lost, for Want of the Dead, that is, for want of Hands to work the Ship.
He perceived not, that his unactive virtue, the more it was extolled, the greater disregard was it exposed to.