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Meaning of નિષ્ક્રિય in English

  • Without fingers or without toes.
  • Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
  • of Disabuse
  • Uninteresting.
  • Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
  • In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
  • A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
  • Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium.
  • A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.
  • Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
  • Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours.
  • Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing; as, idle workmen.
  • Given rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; slothful; as, an idle fellow.
  • Light-headed; foolish.
  • To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.
  • To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.
  • Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.
  • Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer.
  • Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid.
  • To cause to germinate.
  • Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.
  • Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.
  • Inactive; listless.
  • To render inactive or listless.
  • To recover or release from the state of being monopolized.

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