Inactive vs Enactive - What's the difference?
inactive | enactive |
Not active, temporarily or permanently
Not functioning or operating; broken down
Retired from duty or service
(chemistry) Relatively inert
(physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light
Having power to enact or establish as a law.
* Archbishop John Bramhall
As adjectives the difference between inactive and enactive
is that inactive is not active, temporarily or permanently while enactive is having power to enact or establish as a law.inactive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The volcano is inactive , but is only dormant.
- The photocopier is inactive pending repair.
- Admiral Jones is now on the inactive list.
- Aluminium is inactive towards water.
- Synthetic glycine is optically inactive as it contains equal amounts of the d- and l- form.
Derived terms
* inactively * inactivitySynonyms
* (not active) dull, dormant * (not functioning or operating) idleAntonyms
* (not active) activeenactive
English
Adjective
(-)- the case is as clear as the light, that this very statute is declarative of old fundamental law, not enactive of new law.