The adjective inactive is used to describe one or something that lacks activity . The idea of activity, in turn, refers to movement or action.
For example: «Due to the serious injury he suffered in training this morning, the Argentine player would be inactive for four months» , «The government office reported that, due to maintenance tasks on its servers, its website will remain inactive until next Tuesday" , "The company was inactive for several years until an investment group arrived and put it back into operation" .
Inactivity is associated with stillness , idleness and inaction . Take the case of a professional tennis player. Typically, these athletes train almost every day and compete frequently. If a tennis player decides to stay away from the activity for a semester for personal reasons, they will remain inactive for that entire period: that is, they will not train or play for six months. Once you resume playing sports, you will no longer be inactive.
It is necessary to point out that an athlete's inactivity can be extremely negative for their career and, much more importantly, for their state of mind . This is due to two well-defined issues: for the market, someone who is inactive ceases to exist in a very short time; The person who stops his activity, on the other hand, may feel deep sadness for not being able to practice his favorite activity.
But the damage of professional inactivity does not end here, but extends to the moment of resuming the activity. A tennis player who stops practicing for months may encounter many difficulties that prevent him from recovering his normal rhythm, since it is not good for the body to abruptly interrupt a habit of years. While this is often a “mandatory” part of certain treatments, ironically it can also lead to new injuries in the long term.
Professional singers can experience similar situations, and in fact there are documented cases of some who never managed to recover their voices after an operation that left them inactive for a long time . In short, for a passionate person, inactivity is very negative.
Systems and machines may also be down. If a company dedicated to bottling soft drinks is not operating due to a strike by its workers, it is inactive. This means that it does not develop its processes and that the machines it uses on a daily basis are not in operation.
According to the frequency of their eruptions , volcanoes can be classified in different ways. An inactive volcano is one that, although it shows certain signs of activity, has not erupted for a period of several centuries.
In the same way as with the term inaction , mentioned in a previous paragraph, inactivity is the lack of movement or activity on the part of something or someone who should or could be doing something. In the example of the tennis player, his inactivity is recognized because it opposes his normal schedule, in the same way that a machine that is turned off cannot fulfill its functions. An inanimate object (without a soul or showing no signs of life) cannot act and therefore we would not classify it as inactive .
To understand this concept in greater depth, let's look at some of its most common synonyms below: stopped, immobile, passive, still, idle, inert , rested, lazy, lazy, inoperative, indolent, unoccupied and sedentary . Its antonyms worker and active also serve to complete the meaning: someone can be described as inactive to refer to their laziness , their laziness or their idleness , and these are adjectives that would not accompany someone who is a worker .