Inert – meaning, usage, quotes, and social examples

The word of the day is ‘inert’.

The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.

No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.

It means:
1. Lifeless
2. Not moving
3. Lacking the ability or strength to move.
4. Static

1. Johnny Rosenfeld still lay in his ward, inert from the waist down.
2. She lay inert in her bed
3. And when bending over that inert face I felt that there was no longer any breath!
4. The chauffeur got down, shook his fare by the arm, and the arm was inert.
5. A shudder and the caterpillar became as inert as if it were dead.

Some synonyms of today’s word are:
dormant, immobile, impotent, inactive, listless, motionless, paralyzed, passive, powerless, apathetic, asleep, dead, idle, inanimate, indolent, languid, languorous, numb, phlegmatic, quiescent, quiet, slack, sleepy, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, slumberous, static, still, stolid, torpid, unmoving, unreactive, unresponsive, stock-still, stationary, unconscious, out cold, comatose, lifeless, insentient, slothful, dull, listless, apathetic, indifferent, dead to the world, fainéant, soporose, soporous, otiose etc.

able, active, busy, lively, mobile, moving, potent, strong, alive, animated, working