inoperative

Adjective

Meaning

Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

duff out down off dead broken unsuccessful ineffective null useless invalid void unemployed inert idle
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Antonyms

operative good living official working legal
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Phrases with the word

make inoperative render inoperative

Examples

It 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

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Close letter words and terms

inoperant inoperation inoperational inoperativeness inopercular inoperculate