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Inoperative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Not working or functioning.

adj. No longer in force; countermanded: declared the previous instructions inoperative.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. not working or functioning; either idle or broken

adj. No longer legally binding

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Not operative; not active; producing no effects

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Not operative or operating; destitute of activity or of effect; inert: as, laws rendered inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. not working or taking effect

Word Usage

"This aspect of aesthetic community is not the same as what another French philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy, terms the "inoperative community," the longing for the original idea of community that was lost or broken in the transition to modernity, the dialectic of what sociologists term Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft."

Equivalent

down defunct dead

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ineffectual

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

operative uncooperative

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

uninhabitable inapplicable valueless unworkable unusable