Words and phrases that have a meaning related to inaction: (144 results)
Antonyms:
action, activeness, activity
Often used in the same context:
intransigence, incompetence, pusillanimity, obstructionism, recalcitrance, indifference, callousness, dithering, irresponsibility, inefficiency, stonewalling, apathy, indecision, mismanagement, cowardice, prevarication, timidity, vacillation, unwillingness, spinelessness, indecisiveness, shortsightedness, acquiescence, insensitivity, fecklessness, malfeasance, obstinacy, bungling, neglect, ineptitude, complicity, powerlessness, recklessness, ignorance, ineptness, stupidity, disingenuousness, obstinance, laxity, inattention, irresolution, duplicity, arrogance, ineffectuality, helplessness, unaccountability, negligence, ineffectiveness, passivity, carelessness, profligacy, wrongheadedness, nonfeasance, cravenness, inertia, maladministration, gutlessness, unresponsiveness, unconcern, actions, appeasement, failure, scapegoating, highhandedness, folly, incompetency, overzealousness, micromanagement, intractability, inaptitude, intransigency, enfeeblement, meddling, thoughtlessness, fester, stubbornness, perfidy, hypocrisy, temporizing, imprudence, refusal, demagoguery, procrastination, inutile, heartlessness, abdication, foolishness, disunity, obduracy, overreach, slothfulness, heedlessness, cowardliness, complacence, impatience, immoderation, inflexibility, inefficacy, disregard, inadequacy, injustice, misgovernance, inactivity, quiescence, abstention, disuse, slackness, confiscation, inability, lethargy
More specific:
abeyance, anergy, arrest, check, desuetude, doldrums, dormancy, extinction, halt, hitch, quiescency, rest, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis, stay, stop, stoppage, suspension
Appears in the definition of:
dormancy, harold pinter, holding pattern, pinter, putoff, quiescence, quiescency, rest
More general:
motionlessness, state, stillness
Synonyms:
Also try:inactiveness
— Adjectives for inaction: such, complete, own, total, long, forced, apparent, comparative, political, congressional, legislative, more...
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