Inaction
[ɪn'ækʃ(ə)n] or [ɪn'ækʃən]
Definition
(n.) Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.
Checked by Alden
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inactivity, inertness.
Checker: Presley
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACTION]
Editor: Vince
Examples
- But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Pablo has rotted us here with inaction. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Condemned to inaction and a state of constant restlessness and suspense, I rowed about in my boat, and waited, waited, waited, as I best could. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He became insanely irritable, with moods of inaction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was far from rich, and every day of indecision and inaction made his inheritance a source of greater anxiety to him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- As to the arrest of John Mitton, the valet, it was a council of despair as an alternative to absolute inaction. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is to this we have come with so much inaction. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Morton