Clues for the word "INERT"
We've had 238 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 929 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on April 04, 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
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - April 04, 2025
- LA Times - March 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 10, 2025
- USA Today - February 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 02, 2025
- USA Today - January 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 14, 2025
- LA Times - January 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 26, 2024
- New York Times - December 10, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 22, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 24, 2024
- USA Today - October 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 08, 2024
- LA Times - October 06, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 28, 2024
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