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Shiftless vs Inertia - What's the difference?

shiftless | inertia |

As an adjective shiftless

is lazy, unmotivated.

As a noun inertia is

(physics|uncountable|or|countable) the property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.

shiftless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • lazy, unmotivated
  • untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job

    • inertia

    English

    (wikipedia inertia)

    Noun

  • (physics, uncountable, or, countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
  • (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
  • * Carlyle
    • Men have immense irresolution and inertia .
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
    • City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.
  • (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

    • Synonyms

    * (unwillingness to take action) idleness, laziness, sloth, slothfulness

    Derived terms

    * inertial * inertia welding * moment of inertia

    Related terms

    * inert * inertness

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