inactive

in·ac·tive  (n-ktv)

adj.

1. Not active or tending to be active.

2.

a. Not functioning or operating; out of use: inactive machinery.

b. Not being in continuous use or operation: an inactive brokerage account.

3. Retired from duty or service.

4. Chemistry Not readily participating in chemical reactions; inert.

5. Biology Marked by the absence or reduction of activity, such as the ability to cause infection.

6. Medicine Quiescent. Used especially of a disease.

7. Physics Showing no optical activity in polarized light.

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in·active·ly adv.

inac·tivi·ty, in·active·ness n.

Synonyms: inactive, idle, inert, passive, dormant, torpid, supine
These adjectives mean not involved in or disposed to movement or activity. Inactive simply indicates absence of activity: retired but not inactive; an inactive factory.
Idle refers to persons who are not doing anything or are not busy: employees idle because of the strike.
It also refers to what is not in use or operation: idle machinery.
Inert describes things powerless to move themselves or to produce a desired effect; applied to persons, it implies lethargy or sluggishness, especially of mind or spirit: "The Honorable Mrs. Jamieson . . . was fat and inert, and very much at the mercy of her old servants" Elizabeth C. Gaskell.
Passive implies being reactive instead of proactive: "in an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength" Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Dormant refers principally to a state of suspended activity but often implies the possibility of renewal: dormant feelings of affection.
Torpid suggests sluggishness or apathy: "It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age" Samuel Johnson.
Supine implies abject lack of will: "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried" Theodore Roosevelt.

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inactive

Adjective

1. idle; not active

2. Chem (of a substance) having little or no reactivity

inactivity n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	inactive - (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert; "desired amounts of inactive chlorine" chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions unreactive - (chemistry) not reacting chemically
	2.	inactive - (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly pathology - the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases active - tending to become more severe or wider in scope; "active tuberculosis"
	3.	inactive - (military) not involved in military operations nonoperational armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
	4.	inactive - not exerting influence or change active - exerting influence or producing a change or effect; "an active ingredient"
	5.	inactive - (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant volcano" dormant
	6.	inactive - lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith passive
	7.	inactive - lacking activity; lying idle or unused; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" active - full of activity or engaged in continuous activity; "an active seaport"; "an active bond market"; "an active account"
	8.	inactive - not engaged in full-time work; "inactive reserve"; "an inactive member" active - engaged in full-time work; "active duty"; "though past retirement age he is still active in his profession"
	9.	inactive - not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature" lethargic, unenrgetic - deficient in alertness or activity; "bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights" active - characterized by energetic activity; "an active toddler"; "active as a gazelle"; "an active man is a man of action"
	10.	inactive - not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest" motionless, static, still nonmoving, unmoving - not in motion

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inactive

adjective 1. unused, idle, dormant, latent, inert, immobile, mothballed, out of service, inoperative, abeyant << OPPOSITE used

adjective 2. idle, unemployed, out of work, jobless, unoccupied, kicking your heels << OPPOSITE employed

adjective 3. lazy, passive, slow, quiet, dull, low-key (informal) sluggish, lethargic, sedentary, indolent, somnolent, torpid, slothful << OPPOSITE active

Translations

inactive [ɪnˈæktɪv] adj → inactivo

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inactive [ɪnˈæktɪv] adj → untätig