inert (adj.)

  1. unable to move or resist motion

  2. having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive; inert matter; an indifferent chemical in a reaction

    [ Syn: indifferent , neutral ]

  3. slow and apathetic; she was fat and inert; a sluggish worker; a mind grown torpid in old age

    [ Syn: sluggish , soggy , torpid ]

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