Vocabulary
Inertia
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged.
Urdu meaning
بے عملی، سستی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
- The progressives suffer from various maladies: inertia, and the lack of a solid liberal platform that can generate a movement for adherence to the true spirit of democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights.
- This is much less about the energy, or the climate, and much more about inertia masquerading as morality.
- Sloth, inertia and catering to the parochial interests of the ruling parties rather than serving the populace have made the civil services quite unresponsive and inefficient.
- The country`s push into solar power has led to desert solar farms and rooftop incentives, yet the national grid, a creaking relic of the 20th century, remains hostage to inertia.
- In Pakistan, institutional inertia has led to a hoarding mentality towards data, stifling financial innovation.
Synonyms
inactivity, inaction, inactiveness, inertness, passivity, apathy, accidie, malaise,
Antonyms
activity, energy
Curator example
“the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government”
More vocabulary to explore
About this vocabulary section.
These entries support close reading of Dawn editorials and opinion pieces: short definitions,
Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
so you can see tone and usage.
Common questions
- Do I need to sign up to use this vocabulary page?
- No. Word pages are open to everyone. You can read meanings in English and Urdu, synonyms and antonyms, and example sentences without creating an account.
- Where do the example sentences come from?
- When available, example sentences are drawn from cached matches in our Dawn editorial corpus so you can see how a word is used in real newsroom-style prose.
- How is this different from a dictionary?
- This section is curated for students preparing for competitive exams and editorial reading. Entries are compact, often include Urdu glosses, and are paired with in-context lines from editorials when we have them.
