Definition of Inert

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Definition of Inert

Inert

Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.

Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.

Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.

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Inert Quotations

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
Minor White

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
Neil Jordan

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.
Lawrence Hargrave

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Shirley Chisholm

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
Shoshana Zuboff

Inert Translations

inert in Dutch is bewegingloos, traag, energieloos
inert in German is inaktiv
inert in Latin is torpeo, ignavus
inert in Norwegian is treg
inert in Portuguese is inerte

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