Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: inactivity
IPA transcription: [,ɪnækt'ɪvɪti]
Pronunciations of inactivity
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: inactivity
    Meaning: being inactive; being less active
  • Synonyms: inactiveness, inactivity, inertia
    Meaning: a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"
  • Synonyms: inaction, inactivity, inactiveness
    Meaning: the state of being inactive
Usage examples
  • "Activity is good, inactivity is evil. Activity transforms evil into good," says Shakespeare, according to Gervinus.
  • These sallies seemed always to constitute a sort of crisis in his indisposition; and, whenever he was induced to such a premature return, he would fall immediately after into a state of the most melancholy inactivity, in which he usually continued for two or three days.
  • Lena Houghton's attention could only have been given to the drearily read lesson by a very great effort; she was a little lazy and did not make the effort, she thought how nice it was to sit down again, and then the melancholy voice lulled her into a vague interval of thoughtless inactivity.
  • To Harry's impatience the winter wore slowly away while he was confined within the hospital walls; yet the daily, almost hourly sight of May Allison's sweet face, and the sound of her musical voice, went far to reconcile him to this life of inactivity and "inglorious ease," as he termed it in his moments of restless longing to be again in the field.
  • And happiness and success, according to Shakespeare, are attained by individuals possessing this active character, not at all owing to the superiority of their nature; on the contrary, notwithstanding their inferior gifts, the capacity of activity itself always gives them the advantage over inactivity, quite independent of any consideration whether the inactivity of some persons flows from excellent impulses and the activity of others from bad ones.
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