Lack of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

to make inactive; as, boiling will inactivate most enzymes; acetylation of the antibiotic inactivated it.

The act or process of inactivating.

In an inactive manner.

A variety of sugar, found in certain plants. It is optically inactive.

To put in action.

Operation.

Lack of adaptation; unsuitableness.

The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.

Lack of exact correspondence.

Not adhering.

Lack of adhesion.

The state or quality of being inadmissible, or not to be received.

Not admissible; not proper to be admitted, allowed, or received; as, inadmissible testimony; an inadmissible proposition, or explanation.

Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive.

Not advisable.

Lack of affability or sociability; reticence.

Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.

Freedom from affectation; naturalness.

Unaffected.

Incapable of being assisted; helpless.

The quality or state of being inalienable.

Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.

The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.

In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.

Affording no aliment or nourishment.

The quality of being unalterable or unchangeable; permanence.

Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable.

Unamiable.

Incapable of being lost.

A woman in love; a mistress.

Enamored.

A male lover.

Not amovable or removable.

That which is void or empty.

Not angular.

Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous.

Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances.

Destitute of life; lacking animation; unanimated.

The quality or state of being inanimate.

Infusion of life or vigor; animation; inspiration.

To produce inanition in; to exhaust for lack of nourishment.

Inanition.

The condition of being inane; emptiness; lack of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from lack of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.

Not bearing anthers; -- said of sterile stamens.

Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy.

Not admitting of appeal; not appealable.

Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable.

The quality of being inappellable; finality.

Inappealable; final.

Lack of appetency; lack of desire.

The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.

Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case.

Lack of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.

Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent.

Not appreciable; too small to be perceived; incapable of being duly valued or estimated.

Lack of appreciation.

Not apprehensible; unintelligible; inconceivable.

Lack of apprehension.

Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled.

Not instrument (to); not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for.

Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.

Lack of aptitude.

Embodied in, or changed into, water.

The state of being inaquate.

Not arable.

To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach.

A method of ingrafting. See Inarch.

Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.

In an inarticulate manner.

The state or quality of being inarticulate.

Inarticulateness.

Not artificial; not made or elaborated by art; natural; simple; artless; as, an inartificial argument; an inartificial character.

In like degree; in like manner; seeing that; considering that; since; -- followed by as. See In as much as, under In, prep.

Lack of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect.

Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit.

The quality of being inaudible; inaudibleness.

Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent.

To inaugurate.

An inaugural address.

Invested with office; inaugurated.

One who inaugurates.

Suitable for, or pertaining to, inauguration.

To cover with gold; to gild.

The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.

Inauspicious.

Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.

Without authority; not authoritative.

To embark; to go or put into a barge.

Shining in.

Inherence; inherent existence.

To inclose.

Blown in or into.

Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard engine; an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; congenital; as, inborn passions.

A breaking in; inroad; invasion.

To infuse by breathing; to inspire.

Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.

Burning within.

Burnt in; ineffaceable.

A bursting in or into.

A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.

An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun. The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up.

Confinement in, or as in, cage.

The quality or state of being incalculable.

Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great; as, his action did incalculable harm.

The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm.

Incalescence.

Growing warm; increasing in heat.

The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.

Of or pertaining to the Incas.

A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat.

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.

Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.

Hoary with white pubescence.

Dealing by enchantment; magical.

Enchanting.

To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community.