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Meanings of inert in English
Having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive.
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Examples for "sluggish"
Examples for "sluggish"
1
Our main market, in Britain, remains sluggish, reflecting difficult economic conditions there.
2
Italy needs to attract foreign investment to help reinvigorate its sluggish economy.
3
Currently our stock market is dropping and the property market is sluggish.
4
Periods of no great change in tastes meant sluggish performance, he said.
5
Yet even a more sluggish Netflix remains far ahead in the race.
1
How could any sort of industry be possible under these soggy conditions?
2
The buckets and spades; the soggy sandwiches; the rain; the cramped car.
3
Most common is that fried food is heavy, greasy, soggy, and unhealthy.
4
Everywhere the ground was soggy; little streams of water trickled down ditches.
5
A welcome reprieve for both the police and the city's soggy residents.
1
Still no applause from the conspirators; they sat torpid as frozen men.
2
In their strange torpid state the creatures didn't seem to notice her.
3
Hence it would appear that the acetate had rendered the leaves torpid.
4
His torpid eyes, sunk in fat, were fixed upon the ikon stand.
5
Bluebell continued in a torpid condition, scarcely giving any signs of life.
Usage of inert in English
1
Matter is inert; it is the seat of necessity; it proceeds mechanically.
2
Even within the five-mile circle the great majority of people were inert.
3
Detta changed course and began to crawl toward the gunslinger's inert body.
4
On account of his unfortunate condition, however, Hotblack Desiato remained totally inert.
5
One of the latest is the tungsten arc in an inert gas.
6
Soon she would be looking at her inert body from outside it.
7
In the inert state of the religious houses, the soil was unprepared.
8
And in the face of such a menace the Arabs remained inert.
9
She became an inert package easily carried to the new nest site.
10
My body is an inert lump; I can scarcely raise a hand.
11
Innumerable times had he said it; the thought alone held him inert.
12
The colours of the corvette hung from the mast motionless and inert.
13
Then he bent over and worked his arms under her inert form.
14
When learned in this condition it remains a body of inert information.
15
There are the entirely inert-andthey make up most of the crowd.
16
There was the same inert figure, and the same question and answer.
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Inert through the time
Inert across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common