CERCISES Antonyms

• remaining in place

• the quality of not moving

• the state of being inactive

• a disposition to remain inactive or inert

• being inactive; being less active

• inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

• a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)

• weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy

• inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

• (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

• (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance

• a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry

• an occurrence of control or strength weakening

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount

• the act of making less strict

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a pause for relaxation

• a state of inaction

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

• a support on which things can be put

• a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

• not move; be in a resting position

• take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

• give a rest to

• have a place in relation to something else

• be at rest

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• be inherent or innate in

• put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying

• sit, as on a branch

• rest on or as if on a pillow

• be inactive, refrain from acting

• a disinclination to work or exert yourself

• any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits

• apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

• a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

• inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation