Inoperative is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INOPERATIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• not operative
• not working or taking effect
• Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not operative; as; not functioning; having no effect or force

Words related to INOPERATIVE

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Words that contain INOPERATIVE

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How to use INOPERATIVE in a sentence

• Fortunately for me, I passed so nearly through the centre of the aggregation that its attraction as a whole was nearly inoperative.
• Too much reliance, however, must not be put upon the breaks, as they sometimes give way, and in frosty weather are nearly inoperative.
• It would therefore be destitute of a precise meaning, and inoperative from its uncertainty.
• Let it not be supposed that these laws are all obsolete and inoperative.
• I performed all evolutions there by means of that divine Soul which I fashioned there, and which had remained inoperative in the watery abyss.
• Villeneuve had other contingent instructions, which became inoperative through the persistent pursuit of Nelson.
• Von Plehve, in whose hands the reforming edict became practically inoperative, and in fact all reforms impossible.
• We have already explained that, except as a liberal courtesy, the very idea of a call destined to be inoperative, is and must be moonshine.
• A strong and urgent motor idea in the focus may be neutralized and made inoperative by the presence of the very faintest contradictory idea in the margin.
• Like many other statutes of the time this seems to have been inoperative, for we find 23 Hen.
• An attempt was made also to prevent fees or robes being given to the masters, but the statute doubtless proved inoperative, and was afterwards repealed.
• With the camp exits inoperative, Grantline and his men were imprisoned.
• But, as the history of Protestantism proves, the original impulse has not remained inoperative.
• But a moment later, investigating, he found that it could be rendered inoperative by a catch on the inside, which, being set, allowed the door to open and close freely.
• Hence, the rules and regulations of every lodge are inoperative until they are submitted to and approved by the Grand Lodge.
• Such a strange construction would render constitutional provisions of the highest importance completely inoperative and void.
• Were this tendency entirely inoperative, there would be no grammar.
• The entail might be made altogether inoperative by the marriage of her brother.
• The bill violates the principle of the acts of 1833 and September, 1841, by suspending the first and rendering for a time the last inoperative.
• The pulleys are driven by two friction clutches, both of which are inoperative when the set-on handle is vertical as in the figure.
• Parts of the Penal Code, especially the laws against worship and the clergy, had become inoperative with time and the sheer impossibility of enforcement.
• We soon find that the progress of technical skill is curiously inoperative in its effect on human thought and feeling.
• Twice the artillery blundered, and the cavalry was inoperative.
• The Act of 1842 was general in its nature, and inoperative without State legislation.
• To declare the prohibition inoperative, may, indeed, have effect in law as a repeal, but it is a most discreditable way of reaching the object.
• This, of course, renders the proposed legislation entirely inoperative, if it would not actually prejudice the claim of his surviving widow.
• It is true, beyond question, that the Acts of Secession are all inoperative and void against the Constitution of the United States.
• These things I dwell upon as incentives and tokens of an existing public sentiment, rendering this Act practically inoperative, except as a tremendous engine of horror.
• That would be a contradiction in terms, to say that an enactment which had been declared by act of Congress inoperative and void is still in force.
• Then, if it is not in force, if it is not only inoperative and void, as it is to be declared, but is not in force, it is of course repealed.
• It is only for the purpose of carrying out this great fundamental principle of self-government that the bill renders the eighth section of the Missouri act inoperative and void.

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