INACTIVE

adjective Date: 1664 not active: as, a. sedentary , indolent , sluggish , b. being out of use, relating to or being members of the armed forces who are not performing or available for military duties, quiescent , c. chemically inert, optically neutral in polarized light, biologically inert especially because of the loss of some quality (as infectivity or antigenicity), ~ly adverb inactivity noun Synonyms: see: ~