inert
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1. inert - Noun
2. inert - Adjective
3. inert - Verb
4. inert - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.
Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.
Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.
The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.
The house of envy lies in the lowest hollows, golden, sunless, breathed upon by no wind, grim and filled full of inert chill, and lacking warmth, is always roiled in fog.