Sentence example with the word 'inoperative'

inoperative

barren, empty, fruitless, inadequate, inefficacious, nugacious, otiose, out of kelter, out of whack, unfit, useless

Definition adj. not working or taking effect

Last update: July 9, 2015


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This machine is inoperative for further use.   [Please select]

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To pay for rendering inoperative the banishment edict of 1744, the Jews were taxed 3,000,000 florins annually for ten years.   [Please select]

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We have given repeated doses of powerful cathartics without producing any effect; and whenever the medicine is inoperative, death speedily follows.   [Please select]

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During these days of isolation, when Washington, with the telegraph inoperative, was kept in an appalling uncertainty, the North rose.   [Please select]

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Among adult animals, however, selfishness seems to become inoperative in the care they take of their offspring.   [Please select]

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A term used to designate the inoperative point of the crank.   [Please select]

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Floats should not be used except where failure will only render the machine inoperative.   [Please select]

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] [Footnote 2: It declared that the slavery restriction of the Missouri Compromise "was suspended by the principles of the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, and is hereby declared inoperative."   [Please select]

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Just why this parasite is inoperative in Australia, or why it has not been introduced there to lessen the rabbit evil, we do not know.   [Please select]

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inoffensiveness - inoperative - inopportune