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inactives

inactives is the plural of inactive.

Meaning of inactive

Noun

inactive (plural inactives)

  1. A person who does not take action.
    • Typically inactives are poorly educated older women. Their lack of education is overwhelmingly the key factor in assigning the inactives to a life devoid of political activity of any sort.2016, Alan Marsh, Political Action in Europe and the USA, page 47

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Questions about inactives

What is inactives the plural of?
Inactives is the plural of inactive.

Words near inactives in the dictionary

  1. inactive
  2. inactive ingredient
  3. inactive ingredients
  4. inactively
  5. inactiveness
  6. inactives
  7. inactivism
  8. inactivist
  9. inactivists
  10. inactivities
  11. inactivity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inactives (page history and authors); inactive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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