Reverse Dictionary: INERT

ADJECTIVES
► ARGH inert, sluggish, lazy, slow → a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DAMMISHED stunned, bewildered; inept, inert, inactive, stupefied → 1721 Sc.
► DASTARDLY inert of mind or action; stupid, dull → 1567 obs.
► DOLD stupid, inert, as through old age, cold, etc. → a1500 obs.
► DULL inert, sluggish, inactive → 1393
► DULLARD stupid, inert, dull → 1583
► DUMB of a thing: inanimate, inert → c1390
► DUMPISH dull, stupid, slow-witted; inactive, inert, spiritless; dull, uninteresting; abstracted, insensible to outward things → 1545 obs.
► INERTIOUS inert → 1611 obs.
► LANGUID weak, faint, or inert, as from illness or fatigue; lacking vitality → 1595
► LIKE A STUNNED MULLET bewildered, inert → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► OONFERSELL inactive, inert, not lively, weakly → 1871 Sc.
► OWLYST listless, sluggish, slothful, inert → 1440 obs.
► PASSIVE inert, quiescent → 1604
► RESTIVE inclined to rest or remain still; inert, inactive → 1554 obs.
► SOMNOLESCENT drowsy, sleepy; inert → 1845
► THEWLESS devoid of energy; inert, spiritless → 1895 Sc.
► THOWLESS devoid of energy or spirit; inert, inactive; listless → 1721 Sc.
► WAFFLE inert, limp, feeble, weak, sluggish → 1847 Sc.

NOUNS
► DASTARDLINESS inertness or dullness of wit; stupidity → 1553 obs.
► DASTARDNESS inertness of understanding; stupidity; dullness → 1552 obs.
► DUMPISHNESS sluggishness, inertness, insensibility → 1574 obs.
► INERTION inert condition; inertness; inactivity → 1756
► PASSIVITY absence of activity, involvement, etc.; inertness → 1667

NOUNS – PERSON
► CABBAGE a brain-damaged or mentally subnormal person; an inert, incapable person → 1987 colloq. offensive
► DASART a dazed, stupefied, or inert person; a dullard → a1400 obs.
► DASTARD one inert or dull of wit; a dullard; a dolt; a sot → c1440 obs.
► DRUMBLE a dull, inactive person; an inert or sluggish person; a worn-out person or horse → 1575 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► IDOL an inert, inactive person → 1579 obs.

VERBS
► BENUMB to make senseless or inert → 1485
► DRUMBLE to be sluggish or inert → a1616
► DULL 1. to become stupid or inert → c1374
2. to make sluggish or inert → c1440
► HEBETATE to become dull or inert → 1832
► PALSY to render powerless, helpless, or inert → 1615
► SLUG 1. to be lazy, slow, or inert → c1425
2. to make inert or sluggish → 1600