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Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title. That the king had a divine and an indefeasible right to the regal power. Macaulay.

Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. [Obs.] Bacon.

Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] Fuller.

Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. To waste long nights in indolent repose. Pope.

Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable. Most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations. Glanvill.

Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.

Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.

The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.

Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly. Inevitably thou shalt die. Milton. How inevitably does immoderate laughter end in a sigh! South.

Weakening; annulling, or tending to make void. [Obs.]

, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease. Shak. My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life. Dryden. Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Gray.

Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances.

Not having organic structure; devoid of organs; inorganic.

Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; -- often used with of or to. Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness. Sir H. Wotton. Lost in their loves, insensible of shame. Dryden.…

Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words.

led) or by air currents (air cooled) to give the maximum thermodynamic efficiency and to avoid excessive friction or seizing.

A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills. 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, A dreadful interval. Milton.

Void of understanding. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.

A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration of his craft. [Obs.]