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inert 音标拼音: [ɪn'ɚt] a. 惰性的,迟钝的,无活力的,呆滞的 惰性的,迟钝的,无活力的,呆滞的 inert*惰性 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" [ synonym: { inert}, { indifferent}, { neutral}] 3: slow and apathetic; " she was fat and inert"; " a sluggish worker"; " a mind grown torpid in old age" [ synonym: { inert}, { sluggish}, { soggy}, { torpid}] Inert \ In* ert"\, a. [ L. iners, inertis, unskilled, idle; pref. in- ars art: cf. F. inerte. See { Art}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. [ 1913 Webster] The inert and desponding party of the court. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] It present becomes extravagant, then imbecile, and at length utterly inert. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect; as, the noble gases are chemically inert. Syn: Inactive; dull; passive; indolent; sluggish; slothful; lazy; lifeless; irresolute; stupid; senseless; insensible. Usage: { Inert}, { Inactive}, { Sluggish}. A man may be inactive from mere lack of stimulus to effort; but one who is inert has something in his constitution or his habits which operates like a weight holding him back from exertion. Sluggish is still stronger, implying some defect of temperament which directly impedes action. Inert and inactive are negative, sluggish is positive. [ 1913 Webster] Even the favored isles . . . Can boast but little virtue; and, inert Through plenty, lose in morals what they gain In manners -- victims of luxurious ease. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] Doomed to lose four months in inactive obscurity. -- Johnson. [ 1913 Webster] Sluggish Idleness, the nurse of sin, Upon a slothful ass he chose to ride. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 144 Moby Thesaurus words for " inert": abeyant, abiotic, apathetic, asleep, azoic, benumbed, blase, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, changeless, constant, contemplative, dead, debilitated, do- nothing, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, dumb, enervated, exanimate, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, hebetudinous, idle, immobile, immutable, impassive, impotent, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, inanimated, incommutable, inconvertible, indefeasible, indolent, insensate, insensible, insentient, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, jaded, lackadaisical, laissez- aller, laissez- faire, languid, languorous, lasting, latent, lazy, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, lumpish, meditative, moribund, motionless, mute, neuter, neutral, noble, nonconscious, nonliving, nonreturnable, nonreversible, numb, otiose, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, permanent, phlegmatic, pooped, powerless, procrastinating, quiescent, quiet, quietist, quietistic, reverseless, sated, sedentary, senseless, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, somnolent, soulless, stagnant, stagnating, standing, standpat, static, stationary, still, stolid, stultified, supine, suspended, tame, torpid, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unanimated, unaroused, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unconscious, undeflectable, undeviating, unfeeling, unmodifiable, unremitting, unresponsive, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvarying, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, world- weary
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