Inertia

Quick meaning: Inertia is a noun meaning (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.

Meaning

(physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
2. (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

Example Sentences

Men […] have immense irresolution and inertia.

City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.

Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.

Word Forms

• inertias
• inertiae

Synonyms for inertia

Depending on context, synonyms include idleness, laziness, sloth, slothfulness, inactivity, inactiveness.

Antonyms for inertia

Common opposites include activity, activeness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inactivity, inactiveness, momentum, gridlock, paralysis, deadlock.

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