Dormant

The answer

INERT

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INERT answer page.

Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• LATENT (44 uses in xd)
• ASLEEP (32 uses in xd)
• RESTING (5 uses in xd)
• IDLE (4 uses in xd)
• INACTIVE (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for INERT

Every other clue in this collection answered by INERT, most used first.

• Sluggish - used 139 times, most recently in 2025
• Motionless - used 129 times, most recently in 2026
• Not moving - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Lifeless - used 74 times, most recently in 2023
• Unmoving - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Nonreactive - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Like some gases - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Like neon - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Like argon - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• Like krypton - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Like helium - used 38 times, most recently in 2025
• Like xenon - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Still - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Unreactive - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Chemically nonreactive - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Like noble gases - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Dead to the world - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Immobile - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Static - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Not reactive - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Not active - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Sluggish by nature - used 16 times, most recently in 2015
• Lethargic - used 14 times, most recently in 2012
• Chemically inactive - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Slow. - used 12 times, most recently in 1964
• Unable to move - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Inactive. - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Like radon - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Chemically unreactive - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Like the noble gases - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Not reacting - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Torpid - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• Like a couch potato - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Like a noble gas - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Not chemically reactive - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Not going anywhere - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Passive - used 9 times, most recently in 1999
• Hard to get a reaction out of - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Like a bump on a log - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Like neon and argon - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Stationary - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Unlikely to react - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Moveless. - used 7 times, most recently in 1968
• Neutral. - used 7 times, most recently in 1976
• Nonreactive, chemically - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Not doing anything - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Doing nothing - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Not moving at all - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Quiescent - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Unable to react chemically - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Lay dormant - SLEPT, used 6 times
• Not dormant - ASTIR, used 6 times

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