N. inertness, dullness,
inertia, # vis inertiae,
inertion, inactivity,
torpor,
languor,
quiescence,
latency, inaction,
passivity, mental inertness,
sloth,
inexcitability,
irresolution,
obstinacy,
permanence, rare gas,
paraffin, noble metal, unreactivity
Adj. inert, inactive, passive,
torpid,
sluggish, dull, heavy, flat,
slack,
tame, slow,
blunt, unreactive, lifeless, dead, uninfluential,
latent,
dormant,
smoldering, unexerted
Adv. inactively, in suspense, in abeyance
N. unintelligibility,
incomprehensibility,
imperspicuity,
inconceivableness, vagueness, obscurity,
ambiguity, doubtful meaning, uncertainty,
perplexity,
spinosity, obscurum per obscurius,
mystification,
latency,
transcendentalism,
paradox,
oxymoron,
riddle,
enigma,
puzzle, diagnus vindice nodus, sealed book,
steganography,
freemasonry, pons asinorum, asses' bridge, high dutch, greek, hebrew,
jargon V. be unintelligible, require explanation, have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension, render unintelligible,
conceal,
darken,
confuse,
perplex, not understand, lose, lose the clue, miss, not know what to make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up, not be able to account for, not be able to make either head or tail of, be at sea, wonder, see through a glass darkly, not understand one another, play at cross purposes
Adj. unintelligible, unaccountable,
undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable,
unfathomable,
incognizable,
inexplicable,
inscrutable,
inapprehensible,
incomprehensible,
insolvable, insoluble,
impenetrable,
illegible, as greek to one, unexplained,
paradoxical,
enigmatic,
enigmatical, puzzling (secret) 533,
indecipherable, obscure, dark,
muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist,
dim,
nebulous, shrouded in mystery,
opaque, dense,
undiscernible,
misty, hidden,
latent, indefinite,
garbled,
perplexed, undetermined, vague, loose,
ambiguous,
mysterious,
mystic,
mystical,
acroamatic,
acroamatical,
metempirical,
transcendental,
occult,
recondite,
abstruse,
crabbed, inconceivable,
inconceptible, searchless, above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension, beyond one's depth, unconceived, inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable, unpredictable,
unforeseeable Phr. it's greek to me
N. {ant. 525} latency, inexpression, hidden meaning, occult meaning,
occultness,
mystery,
cabala,
anagoge, silence,
concealment, more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear, delphic oracle, le dessous des cartes, undercurrent,
implication, logical implication, logical consequence,
entailment, allusion,
insinuation,
innuendo,
adumbration, "something rotten in the state of denmark", snake in the grass, secret, darkness,
invisibility,
imperceptibility V. be latent,
lurk,
smolder, underlie, make no sign, escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition, lie hid, laugh in one's sleeve, keep back, involve, imply, understand, allude to,
infer, leave an inference,
entail,
whisper, read between the lines
Adj. latent,
lurking, secret,
occult, implied,
dormant,
abeyant, unapparent, unknown, unseen, in the background, invisible, indiscoverable, dark,
impenetrable,
unspied, unsuspected, unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed,
undisclosed, unexpressed, not expressed,
tacit, undeveloped,
solved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered,
untracked,
unexplored, uninvented, indirect,
crooked,
inferential, by inference, by implication,
implicit, constructive,
allusive,
covert,
muffled, steganographic, understood, underhand, underground,
delitescent, concealed
Adv. by a side wind, sub silentio, in the background, behind the scenes, behind one's back, on the tip of one's tongue, secretly, between the lines
Phr. "thereby hangs a tale", tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus, where there's smoke, there's fire
