Synonyms for Inactive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • inactive.
  •asleep (adjective)
  • taking forty winks,
  • Resting,
  • flaked out,
  • out of it,
  • catching some zzz's,
  • somnolent,
  • out like a light,
  • out,
  • on the kip,
  • napping,
  • getting shut-eye,
  • in dreamland,
  • slumbering,
  • sacked out,
  • out cold,
  • in repose.
  •calm (adjective)
  • Waveless,
  • pacific,
  • at peace,
  • low key,
  • reposeful,
  • Stormless,
  • windless,
  • in order,
  • at a standstill,
  • soothing.
  •dead (adjective)
  • inoperable,
  • sterile,
  • wearied.
  •dead, obsolete (adjective)
  • extinct.
  •dull (adjective)
  • yawner,
  • without incident,
  • draggy,
  • Impassible,
  • lumpy.
  •extinct (adjective)
  • ex-animate,
  • dis appeared,
  • de ceased,
  • dead gone,
  • most doused,
  • ex-terminated,
  • most abolished,
  • more doused,
  • more vanquished,
  • most exanimate,
  • de-ceased,
  • more terminated,
  • more disappeared,
  • most exterminated,
  • un known,
  • more exanimate,
  • most extinguished,
  • ex terminated,
  • most disappeared,
  • dis-appeared,
  • terminated,
  • ex animate,
  • more exterminated,
  • more extinguished,
  • most terminated,
  • most vanquished,
  • un-known,
  • more abolished.
  •hebetudinous (adjective)
  • nebber,
  • nebbest.
  •idle (adjective)
  • on the shelf,
  • most laid off,
  • on the bench,
  • un used,
  • idler,
  • most mothballed,
  • more laid off,
  • jobless.
  •inactive (adjective)
  • stationary,
  • Snail-paced,
  • unworking,
  • lifeless.
  •inanimate (adjective)
  • more azoic,
  • in-sensate,
  • most nonvegetable,
  • most mineral,
  • more nonanimal,
  • non vegetable,
  • in-animate,
  • in sensate,
  • non animal,
  • most nonanimal,
  • in animate,
  • non-vegetable,
  • mineral,
  • more nonvegetable,
  • most azoic,
  • non-animal,
  • more mineral.
  •indolent (adjective)
  • dronier,
  • droniest.
  •inert (adjective)
  • comatose,
  • Reposing,
  • sluggard,
  • apathetic,
  • vegetative,
  • immobile,
  • catatonic,
  • insensible,
  • listless.
  •insentient (adjective)
  • in-sentient,
  • in sentient.
  •languid (adjective)
  • laidback,
  • blahser,
  • un concerned,
  • in-firmest,
  • in firmer,
  • most nebbish,
  • wimpiest,
  • most sleepyhead,
  • blahsest,
  • in-firmer,
  • un interested,
  • un enthusiastic,
  • uninterested,
  • snoozier,
  • in firmest,
  • most pining,
  • more nebbish,
  • snooziest,
  • more energyless,
  • un-interested,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • wimpier,
  • most energyless,
  • un-enthusiastic,
  • un hurried,
  • un-concerned,
  • more pining,
  • more sleepyhead,
  • un-hurried.
  •latent (adjective)
  • between the lines,
  • implied,
  • unrealized,
  • vestigial.
  •leisurely (adjective)
  • deliberate,
  • at loose ends,
  • restful,
  • at leisure,
  • unhurried,
  • easy,
  • convenient,
  • leisurely,
  • relaxing.
  •lethargic (adjective)
  • having spring fever,
  • laggard,
  • stretchy,
  • hebetudinous.
  •motionless (adjective)
  • fixed,
  • stock-still,
  • tranquil,
  • standing,
  • becalmed.
  •neutral (adjective)
  • more middle of road,
  • un committed,
  • un-prejudiced,
  • fair minded,
  • most noncombatant,
  • most nonparticipating,
  • more middle-of-road,
  • fairminded,
  • dis-engaged,
  • more unaligned,
  • more nonparticipating,
  • dis interested,
  • more poker faced,
  • dis-interested,
  • non partisan,
  • most middle-of-road,
  • more bystanding,
  • dis engaged,
  • more poker-faced,
  • non participating,
  • most bystanding,
  • un-aligned,
  • by-standing,
  • most poker faced,
  • middle of road,
  • non belligerent,
  • poker faced,
  • un-committed,
  • most nonbelligerent,
  • un aligned,
  • non combatant,
  • more nonbelligerent,
  • un prejudiced,
  • most unaligned,
  • on fence,
  • un-decided,
  • most middle of road,
  • un biased,
  • dis passionate,
  • unaligned,
  • dis-passionate,
  • most poker-faced,
  • by standing,
  • more noncombatant,
  • un decided.
  •nodding (adjective)
  • most slumbery,
  • nodding,
  • more slumbery.
  •nonaligned (adjective)
  • non-aligned.
  •not engaged in action; inert, lazy (adjective)
  • limp,
  • in holding pattern,
  • ossified,
  • out of service,
  • Disengaged,
  • on hold,
  • lax,
  • stable,
  • mothballed,
  • low-key,
  • out of commission,
  • out of work,
  • blah,
  • down,
  • do-nothing.
  •old (adjective)
  • geriatric,
  • grizzled,
  • gray-haired,
  • past one's prime,
  • along in years,
  • broken down,
  • over the hill,
  • oldish,
  • not young,
  • veteran.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • paraplegic,
  • paralyzed,
  • unoccupied,
  • torpid,
  • nonaligned,
  • languorous,
  • unemployed,
  • slowgoing,
  • emeritus,
  • without gainful employment,
  • on the dole,
  • gridlocked,
  • unenergetic,
  • quadriplegic,
  • noncombatant,
  • middle-of-road,
  • deskbound,
  • snoozy,
  • lymphatic,
  • passed on,
  • desk-bound,
  • out of job,
  • sluggish,
  • nonparticipating,
  • exanimate,
  • diplegic,
  • non-combatant,
  • in firm,
  • sleepyheaded,
  • nonvegetable,
  • stagnant,
  • matter of fact,
  • energyless,
  • at liberty,
  • sleepyhead,
  • unexcitable,
  • slumbersome,
  • Unexercised,
  • unfluctuating,
  • non-belligerent,
  • out of action,
  • non-participating,
  • closed down,
  • static,
  • abed,
  • sedentary,
  • inanimate,
  • underemployed,
  • dead,
  • bystanding,
  • sleepy,
  • desker,
  • languid,
  • nonanimal,
  • dead to the world,
  • slothful,
  • unengaged,
  • on sidelines,
  • unapplied,
  • calm,
  • neutral,
  • poker-faced,
  • Workless,
  • deadlocked,
  • somniferous,
  • lethargic,
  • somnific,
  • stolid,
  • insentient,
  • uninvolved,
  • paralytic,
  • no longer known,
  • on layoff,
  • Mooney,
  • out of a job,
  • asleep,
  • laid back,
  • sleeping,
  • non-partisan,
  • blahs,
  • slumberous,
  • slow,
  • neb,
  • latent,
  • slack,
  • azoic,
  • nonbelligerent,
  • leisured,
  • slumbery,
  • dead and gone,
  • wimpy,
  • old,
  • somnifacient,
  • Drony,
  • dozy,
  • between jobs.
  •otiose (adjective)
  • in-effective,
  • sur plusser,
  • sur-plusser,
  • sur plussest,
  • sur-plussest,
  • in effective.
  •paralytic (adjective)
  • more immobilized,
  • more palsified,
  • most palsified,
  • palsified,
  • most paraplegic,
  • most quadriplegic,
  • more diplegic,
  • more quadriplegic,
  • most diplegic,
  • more paraplegic,
  • in capacitated,
  • most immobilized,
  • in-capacitated.
  •passive (adjective)
  • complaisant,
  • placid,
  • submissive,
  • recessive,
  • yielding,
  • acquiescent.
  •quiet (adjective)
  • unexcited,
  • Quieter,
  • quietest,
  • unanxious.
  •recessive (adjective)
  • regressive.
  •reposing (adjective)
  • relaxed.
  •restful (adjective)
  • more relaxing,
  • most relaxing.
  •retired (adjective)
  • more emeritus,
  • with-drawn,
  • most cidevant,
  • most immured,
  • re-tired,
  • with drawn,
  • more cidevant,
  • re tiring,
  • re-tiring,
  • more immured,
  • most emeritus,
  • re tired,
  • cidevant,
  • dis-charged,
  • dis charged.
  •sedentary (adjective)
  • more desk bound,
  • more deskbound,
  • most desk-bound,
  • most deskbound,
  • desk bound,
  • most desk bound,
  • more desk-bound,
  • deskest.
  •slack (adjective)
  • asleep on job,
  • asleep on the job,
  • behindhand,
  • not busy,
  • slow-moving,
  • easy going,
  • easy-going.
  •sleepy (adjective)
  • doziest,
  • more slumbersome,
  • most slumbersome,
  • more yawning,
  • most yawning,
  • dozier.
  •slothful (adjective)
  • more unenergetic,
  • most procrastinating,
  • un energetic,
  • un-energetic,
  • more dallying,
  • most unenergetic,
  • most dallying,
  • more procrastinating.
  •slow (adjective)
  • unpunctual,
  • long delayed,
  • slowest,
  • slow-footed,
  • snaillike,
  • tortoiselike,
  • slow-going,
  • impeded,
  • long-delayed,
  • time-consuming,
  • gradual,
  • slow-paced.
  •slow-footed (adjective)
  • slow footed,
  • slowfooted.
  •slow-going (adjective)
  • slow going.
  •slow-paced (adjective)
  • slow paced,
  • slowpaced.
  •sluggish (adjective)
  • pokey,
  • mooneyer,
  • more sleepyheaded,
  • mooneyest,
  • most sleepyheaded,
  • lumpish.
  •somnifacient (adjective)
  • more opiate,
  • most opiate.
  •static (adjective)
  • more stabile,
  • un varying,
  • more format,
  • more gridlocked,
  • most stabile,
  • un-fluctuating,
  • un changing,
  • most stalled,
  • standing still,
  • un-varying,
  • more unfluctuating,
  • most gridlocked,
  • stabile,
  • most unfluctuating,
  • more stalled,
  • most format,
  • more deadlocked,
  • un-changing,
  • most deadlocked,
  • un fluctuating.
  •stolid (adjective)
  • more unexcitable,
  • un-excitable,
  • un excitable,
  • stoic,
  • un-emotional,
  • most bovine,
  • more bovine,
  • most unexcitable,
  • un emotional.
  •stuporous (adjective)
  • stuporous.
  •torpid (adjective)
  • be numbed,
  • be-numbed.
  •unawake (adjective)
  • dead the world,
  • dead to world,
  • un awake,
  • dead world,
  • un-awake,
  • unawake.
  •unemployed (adjective)
  • most underemployed,
  • un-engaged,
  • more leisured,
  • more unapplied,
  • on dole,
  • on shelf,
  • un engaged,
  • un exercised,
  • most unexercised,
  • more unexercised,
  • out action,
  • un-applied,
  • under-employed,
  • un employed,
  • on bench,
  • un applied,
  • un-exercised,
  • most leisured,
  • out a job,
  • most unapplied,
  • most workless,
  • out job,
  • more unengaged,
  • un-employed,
  • out work,
  • un-used,
  • most unengaged,
  • more underemployed,
  • more workless,
  • under employed.
  •uninvolved (adjective)
  • un involved,
  • un-involved.
  •unoccupied (adjective)
  • un-occupied,
  • un inhabited,
  • un occupied,
  • un-inhabited.
  •useless (adjective)
  • otiose.

• n.

  •
  • asymptomatic,
  • communicable,
  • advanced,
  • acute,
  • catching,
  • autoimmune,
  • benign,
  • clinical,
  • chronic,
  • action,
  • congenital.
  •
  • show,
  • fast,
  • living.
  •
  • half-assed,
  • lackadaisical,
  • shiftless.
  •arrested (noun)
  • arrested.
  •dark (noun)
  • dark.
  •delayed (noun)
  • delayed.
  •dormant (noun)
  • dormant.
  •dull (noun)
  • dull.
  •hypoactive (noun)
  • hypoactive.
  •idle (noun)
  • idle.
  •in abeyance (noun)
  • in abeyance.
  •inactive (noun)
  • nonoperational,
  • inert,
  • retired,
  • unmoving,
  • supine,
  • off,
  • closed,
  • passive,
  • nonmoving,
  • resistless,
  • suspended,
  • reserve,
  • off-duty,
  • at rest,
  • still,
  • strikebound,
  • on leave,
  • quiescent,
  • unused,
  • unresisting,
  • underactive,
  • abeyant,
  • motionless,
  • indolent,
  • unreactive.
  •in remission (noun)
  • in remission.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • state.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • behaviour,
  • quiet.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • monastic,
  • outdoorsy,
  • societal,
  • back-to-nature,
  • bohemian,
  • rootless,
  • nomadic,
  • gracious.
  •
  • suburban,
  • vegetable,
  • austere,
  • new age,
  • enclosed,
  • inoperative,
  • socially.
  •
  • private,
  • settled.
  •
  • rest,
  • social.
  •at liberty
  • duty.
  •idle
  • fallow.

Paraphrases for Inactive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    inert, idle, dormant.
  • Proper noun, singular
    idle, dormant.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    idle.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    active.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    passive, ineffective, deactivated, unreactive, unproductive, laid-up, inoperable, unemployed, unused, non-working, sluggish, non-performing, disabled, Activities, static, unutilized, neutral.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    inaction, downtime.
  • Verb, past participle
    shaded, parked, inactivated, idly.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    non-active, inactivated, inoperative, sedentary.
  • Proper noun, singular
    inactivity.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    inactivity, idleness.
  • Verb, base form
    idle.

Antonyms for Inactive:

• adj.

  • all
    active.
  • not engaged in action; inert, lazy
    energetic, working, moving, busy, used, involved, employed, lively, mobile.
  • Other antonyms:
    kinetic, hardworking, useful, operable, usable, feasible, quick, extinct, zippy, dynamic, viable, workable, nimble, reactive, running, practical.