barren, empty, fruitless, inadequate, inefficacious, nugacious, otiose, out of kelter, out of whack, unfit, useless
Definitionadj. not working or taking effect
Last update: July 9, 2015
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This machine is inoperative for further use. [Please select]
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To pay for rendering inoperative the banishment edict of 1744, the Jews were taxed 3,000,000 florins annually for ten years. [Please select]
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We have given repeated doses of powerful cathartics without producing any effect; and whenever the medicine is inoperative, death speedily follows. [Please select]
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During these days of isolation, when Washington, with the telegraph inoperative, was kept in an appalling uncertainty, the North rose. [Please select]
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Among adult animals, however, selfishness seems to become inoperative in the care they take of their offspring. [Please select]
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A term used to designate the inoperative point of the crank. [Please select]
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Floats should not be used except where failure will only render the machine inoperative. [Please select]
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] [Footnote 2: It declared that the slavery restriction of the Missouri Compromise "was suspended by the principles of the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, and is hereby declared inoperative." [Please select]
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Just why this parasite is inoperative in Australia, or why it has not been introduced there to lessen the rabbit evil, we do not know. [Please select]
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