Clues for the word "INERTIA"
We've had 111 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 228 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on January 30, 2026.
Definition of inertia
- n. - That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; -- sometimes called vis inertiae.
- n. - Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness.
- n. - Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
Referring Clues
- Subject of Newton's first law
- It'll keep you going
- Physics topic
- Staying power?
- Inactivity
- It may be hard to overcome
- Subject of a law of physics
- Lack of get-up-and-go
- Sluggishness
- Subject of Mach's principle
- Notion about motion
- Disinclination to change
- Possible reason to lie in bed all morning
- Resistance to change
- It keeps the ball rolling
- Slothfulness
- It keeps things going
- Torpor
- Sluggard's problem
- It will keep you going
- Problem for lazy people
- Subject of a Newtonian law
- Newtonian topic
- It'll keep you going and stop you from starting
- Couch potato quality
- Relativity topic
- Subject of Newton's first law of motion
- Obstacle to progress
- Physics concept
- Property of matter
- Impedance to progress
- Passivity
- Newton subject
- Newtonian concern
- Reason to keep moving
- Couch potato's state
- Motion notion
- It can be a drag
- Lazy person's state
- Tough thing to overcome
- Resis-tance to change
- Lethargy
- Mechanics concept
- Property of bodies in motion
- Galilean concept
- Sloth
- Tendency to remain unchanged
- It keeps things moving
- Resistance to motion
- Subject of one of Newton's laws of motion
- Newtonian subject
- Stagnation
- Inaction
- Trouble getting started
- Disinclination
- Disinclination to move
- Reluctance to move
- Laziness
- Nudged, I retain disinclination to move
- Reluctance to move home, rate changes entrapping one
- Irate in amendment opposing motion
- Tendency to remain at rest or in steady motion
- Lack of activity from lion, zebra, taiga - nothing odd there?
- Motion (if any) when no external force is applied
- Stillness
- Not wanting to act in "The Tear I Shed"
- Lassitude
- Lack of movement
- Strangely, I earn it in doing nothing
- I retain woeful sluggishness
- Disinclination to respond
- I retain (anag) - the tendency to retain same speed and direction
- This sort of selling can mean stagnation
- Apathy
- Lack of activity gets tie spoiled with rain
- Inability to make progress, ie train management
- State of train that is broken down
- Reactionary tendency of a tier in administration
- Top wine waiter's pointless and muddled, showing sluggishness
- Everything has its moment
- Changes in it are due to inactivity
- Couch potato's problem
- Unwillingness to be proactive, perhaps
- Lack of action, but in time it turns up
- Lack of action, but in time it returns
- Laziness in a rite, perhaps
- Dead one (a sloth)
- Apathetic state
- One has to retain extraordinary stillness
- Salt and where it comes from at home with layabout
- Sloth? One near it is -trembling
- At home, unusually irate, showing a disinclination to move
- A disinclination to act in opening of Educating Rita, possibly
- Disinclination to act shown by one with damaged retina
- Passivity at home? It rises during time
- Lack of movement, batting? Time to wrap it up
- Still quality in sovereign, relative overseas
- Lack of movement in time holds it up
- I got near it, struggling against lethargy
- Loafer's quality
- Disinclination to act
- Lack of motion
- Inactiveness
- Languor
- Reason the physicist stayed in bed?
- Sleep ___ (grogginess after waking up)
- Tendency to stay at rest
- Obstacle to change
- Indisposition to change
- Inclination to stay put
- Resistance to change?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - January 30, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 11, 2026
- New York Times - December 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 18, 2025
- New York Times - November 06, 2025
- LA Times - October 16, 2025
- LA Times - October 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 07, 2025
- New York Times - September 18, 2025
- New York Times - September 06, 2025
- Daily American - September 04, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 17, 2025
- Mirror Mini - June 12, 2025
- Daily American - May 19, 2025
- LA Times - May 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 26, 2025
- LA Times - March 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 07, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 27, 2024
- Daily American - November 26, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 01, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - September 23, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 16, 2024
- LA Times - August 14, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - June 29, 2024
- New York Times - June 12, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 22, 2024
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