| Main Entry: | inoperative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ineffectual |
Synonyms: |
broken, defective, faulty, unworkable, void |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not working |
Synonyms: |
barren, bygone, defunct, departed, exhausted, extinct, gone, inactive, inoperable, inoperative, lost, obsolete, spent, stagnant, sterile, still, tired, unemployed, unprofitable, useless, vanished, wearied, worn, worn out |
Antonyms: |
active, alive, animate, animated, live, operative, working |
| Main Entry: | defunct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extinct, not functioning |
Synonyms: |
asleep, bygone, cold, dead, deceased, departed, done for, down the drain, exanimate, expired, gone, had it, inanimate, inoperative, invalid, kaput, late, lifeless, lost, nonexistent, obsolete, out of commission, vanished |
Antonyms: |
alive, existent, existing, functioning, live, operating, operative, valid, working |
| Main Entry: | dormant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive; sleeping |
Synonyms: |
abeyant, asleep, closed down, comatose, down, fallow, hibernating, inert, inoperative, latent, lethargic, lurking, on the shelf, out of action, passive, potential, prepatent, quiescent, sidelined, slack, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, suspended, torpid |
Antonyms: |
active, lively |
| Main Entry: | harmless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not injurious or dangerous |
Synonyms: |
controllable, disarmed, gentle, guiltless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, inoperative, kind, manageable, naive, nonirritating, nontoxic, painless, paper-tiger, powerless, pussycat, reliable, safe, sanitary, simple, soft*, softie, sound, sure, trustworthy, unobjectionable, unoffensive |
Antonyms: |
bad, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, sinful, wicked |
| Main Entry: | inactive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not engaged in action; inert, lazy |
Synonyms: |
abeyant, asleep, blah*, disengaged, do-nothing, dormant, down, draggy, dull, idle, immobile, in holding pattern, indolent, inoperative, jobless, latent, lax, lethargic, limp, low-key, mothballed, motionless, on hold, ossified, out of action, out of commission, out of service, out of work, passive, quiescent, quiet, sedentary, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent, stable, static, still, torpid, unemployed, unoccupied, unused |
Antonyms: |
active, busy, involved, working |
| Main Entry: | inanimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not alive, not organic |
Synonyms: |
azoic, cold, dead, defunct, dull, exanimate, extinct, idle, inactive, inert, inoperative, insensate, insentient, lifeless, mineral, motionless, nonanimal, nonvegetable, quiescent, soulless, spiritless |
Antonyms: |
animate, living |
| Main Entry: | ineffective/ineffectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, useless |
Synonyms: |
abortive, anticlimactic, barren, bootless, defeasible, feckless, feeble, forceless, fruitless, futile, idle, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inferior, innocuous, inoperative, invertebrate, lame, limited, neutralized, nugatory, null, null and void, paltry, powerless, spineless, unable, unavailing, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, vain, void, withered, worthless |
Antonyms: |
competent, effective, effectual, efficient, powerful, strong, useful |
| Main Entry: | invalid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worthless; unfounded |
Synonyms: |
bad, baseless, fallacious, false, ill-founded, illogical, inoperative, irrational, mad, not binding, not working, nugatory, null, null and void, reasonless, sophistic, unreasonable, unreasoned, unscientific, unsound, untrue, void, wrong |
Antonyms: |
sound, valid, worthwhile, worthy |
| Main Entry: | latent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dormant, hidden |
Synonyms: |
abeyant, between the lines, concealed, contained, covert, idle, immature, implied, in abeyance, inactive, inert, inferential, inferred, inherent, inoperative, intrinsic, invisible, involved, lurking, passive, possible, potential, quiescent, rudimentary, secret, sleeping, smoldering, suppressed, suspended, tacit, torpid, underdeveloped, underlying, undeveloped, unexposed, unexpressed, unrealized, unripe, unseen, veiled, vestigial |
Antonyms: |
active, apparent, clear, live, manifest, obvious, open, public |