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Women who were active most days were more than three times more likely to have fertility problems than inactive women.

Tallahassee police say they made the case inactive after the victim stopped talking them—a claim that Carroll has denied.

In online-dating speak, these inactive users are known as “date bait.”

The demolition work also is predicted to be more complicated because of inactive utility lines.

Arulanandam says it is “overly generous” to say that gun control groups are moribund and inactive.

This product is dextro-rotatory; the laevo and inactive modifications occur in the so-called baldrianic camphor.

Few men could remain so patiently inactive as Seth, once he was convinced that inaction was the best course to pursue.

Having his entire force already on the field, he remained absolutely inactive while the enemy formed their line.

The long inactive, sluggish ecclesiastics suddenly seemed to feel the vigor to resist and the power to lead.

We should have to encounter there only a weak, inactive, and unenterprising people.

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On this page you'll find 113 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inactive, such as: dormant, dull, idle, immobile, inoperative, and jobless.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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