Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not active; inactive.
  • Inoperative; not producing effects; having no efficacy.
  • Marked by inaction; not utilized.
  • To render inactive or incapable; incapacitate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Inactive; listless.
  • transitive verb obsolete To render inactive or listless.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not active; inactive.

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un- +‎ active

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