Difference between Retired and Inactive

Retired

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Describing someone who has retired.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.

Example sentence: I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

Inactive

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not active, temporarily or permanentlyNot functioning or operating; broken downRetired from duty or serviceRelatively inertShowing no optical activity in polarized light