inoperative
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for inoperative
Synonyms
dead, dormant, fallow, free, idle, inactive, inert, latent, off, unused, vacant
Antonyms
active, alive, busy, employed, functioning, going, living, on, operating, operative, running, working
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In October, a Florida man, Cesar Sayoc, sent inoperative mail bombs to prominent Democrats and to CNN鈥檚 office in New York, prompting evacuation of its building. — Washington Post, "CNN increasingly sees itself as subject to threats after incidents involving Cuomo, Lemon, Ryan," 15 Aug. 2019 The Florida man who created a two-week crisis by mailing 16 packages of inoperative pipe bombs packed with fireworks powder and shards of glass to 13 famous Democrats and CNN is scheduled to learn his punishment Monday. — Larry Neumeister, orlandosentinel.com, "Florida man who sent pipe bombs to Clinton, CNN faces sentencing," 5 Aug. 2019 The onetime pizza delivery man faced a mandatory decade in prison after pleading guilty to explosives charges on March 22 for mailing 16 inoperative pipe bombs days before the midterm elections last fall. — Fox News, "Pipe bomb mailer Cesar Sayoc sentenced to 20 years behind bars," 5 Aug. 2019 Immune responses coat those electrodes with glial cells, defensive gunk that eventually renders them inoperative. — Alex Davies, WIRED, "Here鈥檚 How Elon Musk Plans to Stitch a Computer into Your Brain," 17 July 2019 Chiu鈥檚 office said the bill would not prevent cities from enacting their own laws to address abandoned, wrecked or inoperative vehicles. — Laura J. Nelson, latimes.com, "Towing a car can be financially ruinous. Should California cities do it anyway?," 12 June 2019 The protocol was devised to ensure that messages of any length could be sent from one computer to another even if parts of the network were inoperative鈥攊f the country were under nuclear attack, for example. — Popular Mechanics, "The Death of the Internet," 7 Feb. 2019 In hospitals across the country, medical equipment is antiquated, inoperative or nonexistent. — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, "A Yemeni toddler fought for his life in a hospital while adults battled each other," 25 June 2018 Those previous actions primarily covered angle-of-attack sensors that were blocked or rendered temporarily inoperative by icing. — Robert Wall, WSJ, "Lion Air Crash Probe Eyes Sensor Hazards Stretching Back Years," 18 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inoperative.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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