Adjective
Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is the tendency of all creeds, opinions, and political dogmas that have once defined themselves in institutions to become inoperative. James Russell Lowell
The mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds and inoperative upon them. Gilbert Ryle
This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative. Ron Ziegler
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice. Ayn Rand
Whereas Marx's vision of homo faber becomes inoperative within social chains, Stirner's man makes his own freedom. John Carroll
an inoperative law Source: Internet