inertly

inert | American Dictionary

inert
adjective
us/ɪˈnɜrt/

inertadjective (NOT MOVING)

not moving or not able to move:
The inert figure of a man lay in the front of the car.

inertadjective (CHEMISTRY)

[ not gradable ]
not reacting chemically with other substances:
an inert gas

Examples of inert

inert
Both produce a cold, inert substance good for dressing wounds.
The spirit has long since evaporated from this inert lump of flesh.
The material used for the suture should be strong, non absorbable and as inert as possible.
Windborne movement does not imply that migrants are merely inert particles at the mercy of the wind.
The old ceremonial centre, having been detached from its social and cultural milieu, became converted into an inert powerless 'object'.
Two constraints inert at the lexical level emerge as important agents at the postlexical level.
Moreover, there are two-tone languages in which high tone has been said to be phonologically inert.
Additionally, the capsule a patient receives is pharmacologically inert, but hardly inert with respect to its symbolic value and its power as a conditioned stimulus.
Verbs are argued to be syntactically most active but nouns most inert, with adjectives occupying an intermediate rank.
In scenario two all waste is processed at community compost plants and only inert material is transported to sanitary landfills.
In the past, such properties as percentage germination, noxious weeds and inert matter have been evaluated.
By 1986 several thousand objects-mostly spent, upper stages of space-launch vehicles and inert spacecraft-were circling the earth.
The agency of this inert construction appears to be purely fictive as well, a matter of honorific speech merely.
To set up a recent sociological theory against the strength of such an inert mass is truly to set up an unequal contest.
Similarly, multiple glazings and inert gas fillings, so desirable in high temperature climates as well as low temperature locations, are absent.
See all examples of inert
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.