inert

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective unable to move or resist motion
adjective having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive
adjective slow and apathetic

From French inerte, from Latin iners (“inactive, inert”).

And yet they are inert. — A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
It hardened into an age of inert construction. — Creative Unity, Rabindranath Tagore
She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert like that. — Anne of Green Gables, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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