Clues for the word "INERT"
We've had 239 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 970 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Sunday crossword on November 23, 2025.
Definition of inert
- a. - Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.
- a. - Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.
- a. - Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.
Referring Clues
- Motionless
- Not moving
- Sluggish
- Just sitting
- Unmoving
- Like neon or argon
- Not quick to react
- Like 11-Down
- Still
- Dead to the world
- Unreactive
- Like krypton
- Not reacting
- Comatose
- Like some gases
- Like neon or krypton
- Immobile
- Like helium, chemically
- Like a couch potato
- Like krypton or xenon
- Stagnant
- Lifeless
- Like helium
- Not active, chemically
- Not merely sluggish
- Not reacting chemically
- Very slow-moving
- Like a bump on a log
- Sitting around
- Apt to stay put
- Like neon
- Static
- Like noble gases
- Like xenon
- Chemically quiet
- Chemically nonreactive
- Powerless to move
- Like argon or krypton
- Like helium or neon
- Hardly moving
- Like 64-Across
- Periodic table adjective
- Slow to act
- At a standstill
- Nonreactive, chemically
- Not reactive, as some gases
- Like couch potatoes
- Hard to get a reaction out of
- Noble, in a way
- Like radon
- Like a noble gas
- Unlike a reactant
- Like cellulose
- Quiescent
- Like neon and xenon
- Like argon
- Like neon and helium
- Nonreactive
- Listless
- Not reactive
- Opposite of active
- Perfectly still
- Doing nothing
- Not at all active
- Utterly lethargic
- Sluggish by nature
- Unable to react, as helium
- Unable to react chemically
- Lacking energy
- Like neon or xenon
- Inactive
- Without energy
- Unresponsive
- Lethargic
- Unable to move
- Like liquid nitrogen
- Torpid
- Lethargic, perhaps
- Like krypton and xenon
- Like xenon and neon
- Not active
- Heliumlike
- Hard to combine, chemically
- Nonreactive, as some gases
- Like neon, chemically
- Like dead weight
- Adjective for argon or neon
- Like a dead weight
- Unwilling to move
- Like neon and argon
- More than lethargic
- Hard to get a reaction out of?
- Still;lifeless
- Krypton descriptor
- Unreactive
- Gas type
- Chemically comatose
- Dormant
- Like sulfur hexafluoride
- Non-reactive, like some gases
- Like Wile E. Coyote
- Unlikely to react
- Nonreactive, like some gases
- Totally unreactive
- Having no will to move
- Chemically nonreactive, as a gas
- Slower than 43-Down
- Comatose, chemically
- Like a pocketful of krypton
- Not showing much life
- Chemically unreactive
- Slow to react
- Immobile, as a gas
- Physicallly inactive
- Dead to the world, as a chemical
- Stationary
- ___ gas
- Not exactly active
- Chemically inactive
- Not reactive, as gases
- Lying there
- Stock-still
- Physically inactive
- Having limited ability to react
- Like propellants in pesticides
- Just sitting there
- Unable to react
- With 30-Across, neon or xenon
- Like xenon and krypton
- Unlikely to form compounds
- Hard to combine
- Like atoms with full outer shells
- Passive
- Inactive, chemically
- Unlikely to undergo a bonding experience
- Inactive, as gases
- Unable to react, chemically
- Just sitting there, as a gas
- Like krypton and some other gases
- Powerless to act
- Powerless to act, as a gas
- Unlikely to move
- Nonreactive, as helium
- Like krypton or radon
- Like gas that can't pass?
- Like xenon or radon
- Like a sluggish gas
- Not going anywhere
- Like most elements ending in "-on"
- Showing little energy
- Immobilized, as a gas
- Like argon and krypton
- Unable to 34 Down
- Like the noble gases
- Lacking vigour, trainer takes part
- Like xenon, as gases go
- Like xenon or krypton
- Disinclined to move
- ... international cover for The Queen Is Dead
- Nitre treated like nitrogen
- Slow and apathetic
- Powerless to take in a concert piece
- Where Victoria found love, priest's vestment not required, still
- Powerless to move during a wild winter!
- Powerless to give one a rent adjustment
- Still upset (but not very)
- Indolent - unreactive
- Sluggish - unresponsive
- Devoid of motion or change
- It holds the unloved emperor motionless
- Disinclined to act in plainer terms
- Without the strength to move
- Still fit in less seconds
- Consumed by diner tucking in still?
- Supplement is losing dollars still
- Sluggish ferrets regularly found beneath home
- Like helium and neon
- Lacking liveliness
- Like some gas elements
- Like group 18 elements
- Nitre - active or passive?
- Still part of the clique, bold, going topless
- Still upset after having victory annulled
- Still at home with the Queen last night
- Dormant, lifeless
- Still fashionable with monarch and model
- Apathetic
- Lifeless, sluggish
- Disinclined to act in liner tragedy
- Turn up missing volume, showing no reaction
- Sluggish, inactive
- Lifeless; apathetic
- Part of airliner threatens to be unresponsive
- Phlegmatic
- Lethargic entertainer taking part
- Helium adjective
- Like 35-Down
- Stagnant, gas-wise
- Like gas that just sits there
- Powerless to revise the rent for one
- Unreactive, to a chemist
- Unreactive form of nitre
- Like gases in the rightmost column of the periodic table
- Couch-potato-esque
- Like low-energy gases
- Like atoms with complete valence shells
- Idle
- Like radon, say
- Inactive, sluggish, etc.
- Nonreactive, as neon
- Nonreactive, as gases
- Lacking vigor
- Like xenon or neon
- Nonreactive, in chemistry
- Slow to move
- Totally lacking in pizzazz
- Not stirring
- Like argon or neon
- Helium, chemically
- Lacking vigour
- Not chemically reactive
- Languid
- Like an unreactive gas
- Like the gases neon and argon, but not oxygen and hydrogen
- Nonreactive in the lab
- Not so moving?
- Unmotivated, and then some
- Like a nonreactive element
- Non-reactive
- Not doing anything
- Powerless to do a bit of finer tuning
- Unlikely to give a strong reaction
- Disinclined to form compounds
- Nonreactive, like helium
- Nonreactive, as the noble gases
- With 79-Across, entry in the periodic table's last column
- Nonreactive, like neon and argon
- Sluggish by nature, as a gas
- Like helium and xenon
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 23, 2025
- New York Times - November 15, 2025
- Daily American - November 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 06, 2025
- LA Times - November 02, 2025
- LA Times - October 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 25, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 16, 2025
- New York Times - September 05, 2025
- LA Times - September 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 01, 2025
- LA Times - August 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 05, 2025
- LA Times - July 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 24, 2025
- LA Times - May 31, 2025
- New York Times - May 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 21, 2025
- LA Times - May 19, 2025
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