Word "INERTIA" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a disposition to remain inactive or inert
Synonyms:
inactiveness, inactivity
Examples:
he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
(physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force

Crossword Clues for INERTIA

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Inactivity (7) Mirror Classic 13 Aug 2025
Force which resists changes in motion (7) Puzzler 09 Aug 2025
Principle in Newton's first law USA Today 04 Aug 2025
Take a train that is initially in its state of rest (7)
Are in it floundering with sluggishness (7)
Disposition to remain inactive (7)
The passive state of a train that is going out (7)
Nitre exploded by one with a disposition to remain inactive (7)
It keeps things moving Premier Sunday 18 May 2025
Occasionally regrets ousting Democrat from country, finding apathy The Telegraph Toughie 15 May 2025
Lethargy LA Times Daily 13 May 2025
Tendency to do nothing about tie with Iran (7)
Inactivity Mirror Tea Time 01 May 2025
Concept in Newton's first law USA Today 26 Apr 2025
Perhaps apathy is integral to continental impartiality?
Popular Scottish county, according to Brummie, shows tendency to remain unchanged (7)
In physics, what term refers to the tendency of matter to stay at rest or travel in a straight line? (7)
Arnie out to cover return of mating sloth
Lethargic quality (7) The Guardian Quick 15 Apr 2025
Sluggishness or a lack of activity. (7)
Disinclination to act (7) Puzzler 03 Apr 2025
Lack of movement made one retain it anyhow (7)
Stillness in one train crashing round east The Sun Two Speed 21 Mar 2025
Sloth The Sun Two Speed 21 Mar 2025
I retain exceptional stillness
Resistance to change LA Times Daily 14 Mar 2025
Tie with Iran may bring apathy The Sun Two Speed 09 Mar 2025
Sloth The Sun Two Speed 09 Mar 2025
Property of matter New York Times 07 Mar 2025
Lack of movement in 22 perhaps (7)
Force that resists changes in motion (7)
"Total physical and mental ___ are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine": J K Galbraith (7)
Stillness The Sun Two Speed 13 Feb 2025
Nuts are in it for sloth The Sun Two Speed 13 Feb 2025
State encouraging one to let the matter rest (7)
Possibly I retain indolence (7)
Lethargy The Sun Two Speed 20 Jan 2025
Tie with Iran could bring apathy The Sun Two Speed 20 Jan 2025
Sluggishness at home? I tear about (7) Puzzler Cryptic 11 Jan 2025
Passive state (7)
Lethargy, torpor (7)
Tendency to remain still (7)
Bananas are in it for sloth The Sun Two Speed 11 Dec 2024
Stillness The Sun Two Speed 11 Dec 2024
Apathy coming from a tinier adjustment (7)
Batting | rate poorly shows sluggishness (7)
A no go situation (7)
Inactivity Mirror Tea Time 21 Nov 2024
Are in it to show no movement at all (7)
Lack of activity (7) Puzzler 12 Nov 2024
I retain shifts, not moving state? (7) Puzzler Cryptic 08 Nov 2024
Inactivity Mirror Classic 04 Nov 2024
Resistance to change (7) The Guardian Quick 01 Nov 2024
I retain remarkable sluggishness (7)
Tendency to stay in place Wall Street Journal 21 Oct 2024
Tinier moves by a sloth The Times Sunday Cryptic 20 Oct 2024
Retina operated upon after I will find sloth (7) The Guardian Cryptic 17 Oct 2024
Finer tiaras are for the passivity
Stillness The Sun Two Speed 16 Oct 2024
Sloth and one near it on the move The Sun Two Speed 16 Oct 2024
Lack of action but in time it rises (7)
Not wanting to act in "The Tear l Shed" (7)
Reluctance to move home? It's overturned, in time The Times Cryptic 11 Oct 2024
Not wanting to act in "The Tear I Shed"
Resistance to change of motion The Sun Mini 08 Oct 2024
Train that is brought to absolute rest (7)
Tire in a way through lack of energy (7)
Sluggishness of train, ie awful (7)
Inactivity made inebriated Deb quit (7)
I earn it from doing very little
State of rest I retain somehow (7)
In it are possibly no movements (7)
Lethargy at home, then terribly irate (7) Puzzler Cryptic 10 Sep 2024
Batting I rate poorly shows sluggishness (7)
How I retain this passive state (7)
Sadly I retain a tendency to do nothing (7)
... aliquando fit segnitia vel desidia The Times O Tempora 07 Sep 2024
Does such selling show indolence?
Sloth, one found in tricky terrain overlooking river The Telegraph Toughie 29 Aug 2024
Sloth and cuckoo are in it The Sun Two Speed 28 Aug 2024
Lethargy The Sun Two Speed 28 Aug 2024
You can't do a thing with it (7)
Indisposition to change LA Times Daily 14 Aug 2024
Hip injured, irate disinclination to move The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Aug 2024
Law of motion topic Premier Sunday 04 Aug 2024
Property described in Newton's First Law (7)
One with retina trouble has a tendency to remain unmoved
Inactivity, sluggishness (7)
Force that allows objects to remain motionless (7)
Inactivity Mirror Classic 07 Jul 2024
In physics, the tendency of an object to maintain its state of rest (7)
Sloth The Telegraph Quick 06 Jul 2024
Inactivity Mirror Tea Time 01 Jul 2024
At home, irate, developing apathy (7)
Unfortunately I retain a tendency not to change The Times Quick Cryptic 29 Jun 2024
Force preventing movement (7) Puzzler 23 Jun 2024
One reattached retina with a tendency to remain unchanged (7)
Obstacle to change New York Times 12 Jun 2024
Maybe I retain a passive state (7)
Stillness needed by one with damaged retina (7)
After treatment, I retain lethargy (7)
Resistance to changing tire in a convertible (7)
I got near it, struggling against lethargy (7)
I retain odd disinclination to move (7)
Sluggishness of one with detached retina (7)
Any movement will get rid of it (7)
A tinier form of sloth (7)
Indolence shown in a rite perhaps (7)
Disinclination to move home before a tier shifted (7)
Train that is misdirected leads to inactivity (7)
Stillness The Sun Two Speed 04 May 2024
Sloth and bats are in it The Sun Two Speed 04 May 2024
Resistance to change of motion (7) Puzzler 30 Apr 2024
Moving will make it disappear (7)
No movement here of train that is broken up (7)
Passive Artificial Intelligence on reflection displayed disinclination to move or act
Inactivity at home I rate terrible The Times Quick Cryptic 25 Apr 2024
Inactivity, i.e. train trouble (7)
Show sluggishness, i.e. train sloppily
Stillness (7) Puzzler 16 Apr 2024
Subject of Newton's first law of motion (RAIN TIE anagram) (7)
I retain awful sluggishness (7)
Resistance to change a tinier novel (7)
Near it I could show impassivity (7)
I earn it strangely in doing absolutely nothing
That is, to catch a train, you have to be in a passive state
One train turned up at the end, in a state of rest (7)
I earn it (anag)(7)
Disinclination to move The Times Concise 01 Apr 2024
Show sluggishness, i.e. train sloppily (7)
I retain a state of immobility for a change (7)
Resistance to change in motion (7)
Inactivity Mirror Tea Time 25 Mar 2024
The lethargy I retain however moved
Tough thing to overcome (I RETAIN anagram) (7)
One near it may show lethargy The Sun Two Speed 17 Mar 2024
Stillness The Sun Two Speed 17 Mar 2024
Principle of ____, another name for Newton's first law of motion (7)
Sluggishness, laziness
I retain odd tendency to do nothing (7) Puzzler Cryptic 11 Mar 2024
Apathy I retain however moved (7)
Disinclination to move (7) Puzzler 29 Feb 2024
A property something still has
In physics, the tendency of a body to preserve its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
I retain unusual state of inactivity (7)
Sloth, one in a tree, almost moving (7)
Sloth, one in a tree, almost moving The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Feb 2024
Ian tire? In that passive state? (7)
Somehow I retain immobility (7)
Sluggishness, batting: time to win it back? (7)
No change to a tinier problem (7)
Ten IRA I agitate with inactivity
Still one article on type of selling (7)
Inability to move, i.e. train trouble (7)
I earn it as a change from work (7)
Lack of movement as one near it can show (7)
Newtonian concept Newsday 26 Jan 2024
Inactivity Mirror Classic 21 Jan 2024
A tendency to do nothing or remain unchanged
In it are makings of passivity (7)
Passive property of a stationary or moving body described by Newton's first law of motion (7)
Resistance to change Thomas Joseph 01 Jan 2024
Lack of activity Puzzler Backwords 19 Dec 2023
Obstacle to progress LA Times Daily 14 Dec 2023
I retain awful inactivity (7)
I somehow retain passivity (7)
Inactivity Mirror Tea Time 30 Nov 2023
Reluctance to move daintier bits below the head (7)
Subject of Newton's first law USA Today 28 Nov 2023
Nuts are in it for sloth The Sun Two Speed 16 Nov 2023
Stillness The Sun Two Speed 16 Nov 2023
Popular queen meeting Spanish aunt resulting in inactivity The Guardian Cryptic 14 Nov 2023
Popular queen meeting Spanish aunt resulting in inactivity The Guardian Cryptic 09 Nov 2023
Lethargy fiancee Ruth is occasionally beginning to address The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Nov 2023
Resistance to movement The Times Concise 16 Sep 2023
Resistance to change Thomas Joseph 15 Sep 2023
Laziness makes the writer retain eccentric style The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Jul 2023
Unfortunately I retain an inclination to indolence The Telegraph Toughie 14 Jun 2023
Tendency to stay at rest New York Times 25 Apr 2023
I retain strange apathy The Guardian Quiptic 02 Jan 2023
Resistance to change The Times Concise 01 Dec 2022
What keeps things going Premier Sunday 06 Nov 2022
Resistance to change The Times Concise 25 Oct 2022
Sleep ___ (grogginess after waking up) USA Today 24 Oct 2022
Sluggishness The Telegraph Quick 11 Oct 2022
Sluggishness The Telegraph Quick 08 Aug 2022
Homebody’s propensity Wall Street Journal 09 Jul 2022
Sloth and one near it disturbed The Times Cryptic 06 Jul 2022
Disinclination to act in time to catch it on the way back The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Jul 2022
I retain distressed sloth The Times Cryptic 04 Jul 2022
Subject of Newton's first law LA Times Daily 12 Jun 2022
Subject of Newton's first law The Washington Post 12 Jun 2022
Lethargy The Telegraph Quick 09 Jun 2022
Finer arts bias essentially causing stagnation?
Resisting disturbance from the south, island on western part of UK The Telegraph Toughie 29 Apr 2022
Sluggishness of one on illegal drug in train, tripping The Times Cryptic 19 Apr 2022
Sloth The Guardian Quick 09 Apr 2022
Resistance to change Thomas Joseph 07 Apr 2022
The “state of rest” in Newton’s first law of motion The Times Specialist Sunday 06 Mar 2022
Typical of those doing nothing in one train out around Spain Irish Times Crosaire 12 Feb 2022
Moment of ___ (Physics calculation)
Reluctance to move The Times Concise 31 Dec 2021
Law-of-motion subject Premier Sunday 28 Nov 2021
Shockingly, I retain passivity The Times Cryptic 17 Nov 2021
Sloth one near it disturbed The Times Cryptic 15 Oct 2021
Reason the physicist stayed in bed? New York Times 10 Oct 2021
Lethargy Eugene Sheffer 06 Oct 2021
Immobility The Telegraph Quick 24 Sep 2021
Lethargy shown in Iran tie, unexpectedly
Sloth's favourite time to eat it up
Subject of Newton's first law The Washington Post 24 May 2021
Subject of Newton's first law LA Times Daily 24 May 2021
Resistance to change Wall Street Journal 22 May 2021
Queen in top ten single reversing apathy The Telegraph Toughie 20 May 2021
Principle behind the need for seat belts Wall Street Journal 20 May 2021
Resistance to change The Washington Post 30 Apr 2021
Resistance to change LA Times Daily 30 Apr 2021
Lethargy The Telegraph Quick 23 Apr 2021
Sloth and one near it disturbed The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Mar 2021
Sloth at home has it back in time The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Mar 2021
Ship heading off with Spanish aunt showing a tendency to do nothing The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Feb 2021
Sloth and one near it on the move
Sluggishness New York Times 03 Feb 2021
Sloth I train somehow round back of menagerie
Sloth and cuckoo are in it The Sun Two Speed 22 Jan 2021
Lethargy The Sun Two Speed 22 Jan 2021
Apathy The Telegraph Quick 08 Jan 2021
Disinclination to move it back through in time
In Royal Crown, artist's drawn still life?
Resistance to change Thomas Joseph 28 Nov 2020
Resistance to change The Times Concise 27 Nov 2020
I retain run-down property that stops me moving?
Tendency to stay at rest The Washington Post Sunday 18 Oct 2020
Stillness or ennui The Sun Two Speed 30 Sep 2020
Tie with Iran could bring apathy The Sun Two Speed 30 Sep 2020
Notion of motion Wall Street Journal 12 Sep 2020
Subject of Newton's first law of motion New York Times 06 Sep 2020
Lassitude LA Times Daily 03 Sep 2020
Lassitude The Washington Post 03 Sep 2020
Being still inebriated after partying and missing bed The Telegraph Toughie 27 Aug 2020
Stillness The Sun Two Speed 25 Jul 2020
Bananas are in it for sloth The Sun Two Speed 25 Jul 2020
One train going around Spain is synonymous with those doing nothing Irish Times Crosaire 27 Jun 2020
One moving near it is sloth The Sun Two Speed 26 Jun 2020
Unfortunately, I retain the lack of movement
Slowness to react The Times Concise 28 May 2020
Top ten single Queen's penned promoted stillness The Telegraph Cryptic 28 May 2020
Reluctance to move The Times Concise 26 May 2020
Lethargy at home I rate badly The Telegraph Cryptic 18 May 2020
Inactiveness Family Time 17 May 2020
Disinclination to act in monarch tribal, oddly The Telegraph Toughie 05 May 2020
I tear in to change passivity
Laziness — that's what the former ruler of Iran kept hidden, reportedly
Tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged Irish Times Simplex 07 Mar 2020
Finer arts bias essentially causing stagnation
Lethargy Premier Sunday 16 Feb 2020
Reluctance to move one near it, somehow
Laziness of Maitre Nicolas in retirement
I retain strange disinclination to act
Lack of get-up-and-go Family Time 02 Dec 2019
Sloth and one near it, moving The Sun Two Speed 23 Nov 2019
I unusually retain resistance to change
Tie with Iran may bring apathy The Sun Two Speed 06 Aug 2019
Lack of movement from one broken train outside Rotherham Central The Sun Two Speed 16 Jul 2019
Tendency to do nothing The Times Concise 25 Jun 2019
Reluctance to move home -- age holds it back The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Jun 2019
Resistance to change Premier Sunday 09 Jun 2019
Motionlessness The Times Concise 09 Jun 2019
Sloth and bats are in it The Sun Two Speed 25 Apr 2019
Sloth I train to run with energy
Sluggishness I retain at work The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Mar 2019
Nuts are in it for sloth The Sun Two Speed 07 Mar 2019
Passivity in time stifling rise in sexual activity The Telegraph Toughie 06 Mar 2019
Resistance to change Universal 08 Feb 2019
Disinclination to act Newsday 06 Jan 2019
Subject of Newton's first law
Resistance to change
Loafer's quality LA Times Daily 23 Dec 2018
Loafer's quality The Washington Post 23 Dec 2018
Heartless private lifted small island's torpor The Telegraph Toughie 16 Nov 2018
One near it may show lethargy The Sun Two Speed 11 Nov 2018
Sluggishness The Telegraph Quick 06 Nov 2018
Reluctance to move, i.e. train broken down
Problem for lazy people Wall Street Journal 01 Oct 2018
Sloth in a tree almost stirred, one having poked it
Resistance to change New York Times 01 Sep 2018
Couch potato's state USA Today 18 Aug 2018
Tendency of a body to remain still or maintain motion without external force The Times Specialist Sunday 29 Jul 2018
Couch potato's problem Wall Street Journal 22 May 2018
Inactivity The Telegraph Quick 25 Apr 2018
Flying in the air? Not hard! It's a physics topic
Disinclination to move Newsday 26 Jan 2018
Reluctance to move home, note, during extended period
Loafer's quality
Problem for lazy people
Couch potato's state
Couch potato's problem
Resistance to change
Sluggishness I retain when working The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Dec 2017
Lethargy from one in Cheers, after popular hospital series
Lack of movement, batting? Time to wrap it up
I retain studied disinclination to move
Immobility The Telegraph Quick 17 Dec 2017
Reluctance to move home, rate changes entrapping one
Nudged, I retain disinclination to move
Passivity at home? It rises during time
Reluctance to move in time is holding it up The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Apr 2017
I retain curious resistance to change The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Apr 2017
Missing sources of fine art via lethargy
I somehow retain staying power
Inactivity Universal 30 Nov 2016
Homebodies' propensity Wall Street Journal 22 Oct 2016
Trouble getting started New York Times 10 Sep 2016
Sloth? One near it, trembling The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Jun 2016
I, I tire - an exertion is not possible in this state
Notion about motion Premier Sunday 15 May 2016
Inaction Premier Sunday 01 May 2016
Orientalist lost out in activity? Irish Times Crosaire 26 Mar 2016
Tendency to remain unchanged The Chronicle of Higher Education 18 Mar 2016
Stagnation Universal 02 Mar 2016
A disinclination to move in time to cover it up
Passivity Newsday 11 Feb 2016
Most of Aintree jumping blocked by one's unwillingness to move
Lack of movement The Washington Post 10 Jan 2016
Inactivity
Trouble getting started
Tendency to remain unchanged
Resistance to change USA Today 18 Dec 2015
I retain awkward lack of movement The Sun Two Speed 09 Dec 2015
Lack of activity The Sun Two Speed 09 Dec 2015
Sloth of ruling monarch papists regularly brought up The Times Cryptic 23 Nov 2015
Inclination to inactivity during time -- time I kept in The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Nov 2015
Lassitude The Guardian Speedy 01 Nov 2015
Sluggishness LA Times Daily 24 Sep 2015
Laziness current trainer hammered right away The Times Cryptic 07 Sep 2015
Newtonian subject Newsday 16 Aug 2015
Sluggishness Newsday 09 Jul 2015
Lethargy in a tie arranged round end of year The Telegraph Cryptic 30 May 2015
I almost trained wild sloth
Passivity when husband's absent from 12 while working area The Telegraph Toughie 26 May 2015
Disinclination to act shown by one with damaged retina
Sloth in tree briefly on the move meets another coming up The Times Cryptic 11 Mar 2015
Unusually, I earn it in doing nothing The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Feb 2015
Disinclination to act shown by one with damaged retina
Tending not to move owning this property? The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Jan 2015
Tendency to inaction The Times Concise 09 Jan 2015
Passivity The Telegraph Quick 06 Jan 2015
Subject of one of Newton's laws of motion Wall Street Journal 02 Jan 2015
Resistance to change
Subject of one of Newton's laws of motion
Sluggishness
Newtonian subject
Sluggishness
Inactivity shown by Indian newspaper primarily — it's breaking live all around
A disinclination to act in opening of Educating Rita, possibly
Strangely, I earn it in doing nothing
Lack of activity among island's soldiers during revolution
Unwillingness to be proactive, perhaps
Popular time to welcome the return of mating sloth
Slothfulness
It keeps things moving
Subject of Newton's first law
Tendency to remain unchanged
Subject of Newton's first law of motion
Staying power?
Mechanics concept
Subject of Newton's first law
Newton subject
Galilean concept
Lazy person's state
Lethargy
Newtonian concern
Reason to keep moving
Newtonian concern
Resistance to change
Tough thing to overcome
What Newton's first law of motion concerns
It keeps things going
Subject of Newton's first law of motion
Newton subject
Obstacle to progress
Physics topic
Couch potato quality
Sluggishness
Couch potato quality
Sluggard's problem
Impedance to progress
Torpor
It'll keep you going and stop you from starting
Physics topic
Property of matter
Relativity topic
It keeps things going
Sluggishness
Subject of Newton's first law
Physics concept
Newtonian topic
Subject of Newton's first law of motion
Resistance to change
Passivity
Subject of the first law of motion
Subject of Newton's first law
Resistance to change
Resistance to motion
Couch potato's state
Slothfulness
It keeps the ball rolling
Subject of a Newtonian law
Newtonian concept
Subject of the first law of motion
Subject of Newton's first law
Subject of the first law of motion
Torpor
Motion notion
Torpor
Newtonian concept
Possible reason to lie in bed all morning
Sluggishness
Staying power?
Notion about motion
Disinclination to motion
It keeps things going
Problem for lazy people
Disinclination to change
Subject of Mach's principle
Couch potato's condition
It'll keep you going
Sluggishness
Torpidity
Languor
It's a drag
Indisposition to motion
Subject of a law of physics
Inactivity
It may be hard to overcome
Lack of get-up-and-go
It will keep you going
It'll keep you going
Sloth one near it disturbed
Shockingly, I retain passivity
Torpor
Newtonian concept
Inactivity
Newtonian topic
Inactivity
Staying power?
Motion notion
Subject of the first law of motion
Bureaucratic specialty
Resistance to change
It'll keep you going
Physics topic
Natural resistance to change
Subject of Newton's first law
Lethargy
Immovability
Lack of motion
Stagnation
Immobility
Seat belts help overcome this
Passivity
Tendency toward torpor
Disinclination to move or act
Disinclination to act
Subject of Newton's law
Lack of activity
Laziness.
Torpidity.
Dullness.
Stagnation.
A property of matter, in physics.
Inactivity.
Spring fever.
Resistance to change.
Sluggishness.
Static condition.
First law of motion subject
Lack of action.
Do-nothing-ness.
That spring-fever feeling.
Immobility.
Disinclination to act.
Indisposition to act.
Common symptom of spring fever.
Disinclination to move.
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