hypoactive

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adjective

Less than normally active.

Similar
underactiveinactive
Opposite
hyperactive
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Meanings

adjectivehypoactive (comparative more hypoactive, superlative most hypoactive)

comparative more hypoactive · superlative most hypoactive

  1. Less than normally active.

    Men have the naturally higher sex drive, yet all the laws, customs, punishments, shame, strictures, mystiques, and anti-mystiques are aimed at that tepid, sleepy, hypoactive creature the female libido.

    1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian

    Synonyms: underactive

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveLess than normally active.

Similar
underactive
Opposite
hyperactive

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveabnormally inactive

Similar
underactiveinactive
Also see
inactiveunderactive

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From hypo- + active.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with hypoactive

activeinteractiveattractiveinactiveradioactivereactiveproactiverefractiveunattractivehyperactiveextractiveoveractiveimmunoreactivesubtractiveunderactivetractivefactivecontractiveabstractivecounteractivedetractivedistractiveenactivehyperreactive
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Cite this entry
APA

hypoactive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypoactive

MLA

“hypoactive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypoactive. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hypoactive,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypoactive.

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