'Dormant' definitions:
Definition of 'dormant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs" [syn: dormant, hibernating(a), torpid]
adjective
(of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant volcano" [syn: dormant, inactive] [ant: active]
adjective
Lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn: dormant(ip), sleeping]
adjective
Inactive but capable of becoming active; "her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened" [syn: abeyant, dormant]
Definition of 'Dormant'
From: GCIDE
- Dormant \Dor"mant\, n. [See Dormant, a.] (Arch.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep." --Arch. Pub. Soc. -- Called also dormant tree, dorman tree, dormond, and dormer. --Halliwell. Dormer
Synonyms of 'dormant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abeyant,
- apathetic,
- asleep,
- at rest,
- benumbed,
- between the lines,
- blase,
- bored,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- comatose,
- concealed,
- contemplative,
- covert,
- cryptic,
- dead,
- dead asleep,
- debilitated,
- deep asleep,
- delitescent,
- do-nothing,
- dopey,
- droopy,
- drugged,
- dull,
- enervated,
- esoteric,
- exanimate,
- fast asleep,
- flaked-out,
- flat,
- foul,
- groggy,
- heavy,
- hebetudinous,
- hibernating,
- hidden,
- idle,
- immobile,
- in abeyance,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- inanimate,
- inert,
- jaded,
- lackadaisical,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- languid,
- languorous,
- latent,
- leaden,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- listless,
- logy,
- lumpish,
- lurking,
- meditative,
- moribund,
- motionless,
- muffled,
- mystic,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- numb,
- obfuscated,
- oblivious,
- obscured,
- occult,
- out,
- paralytic,
- paralyzed,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- pooped,
- possible,
- potential,
- procrastinating,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- quietist,
- quietistic,
- resting,
- sated,
- sedentary,
- slack,
- sleeping,
- sleepy,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- slumbering,
- slumberous,
- smoldering,
- somnolent,
- sound asleep,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- standing,
- standpat,
- static,
- stationary,
- still,
- stultified,
- submerged,
- supine,
- suspended,
- tame,
- torpid,
- unaroused,
- unconscious,
- under the surface,
- underlying,
- undisclosed,
- unexpressed,
- unmanifested,
- unmoving,
- unrevealed,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- veiled,
- virtual,
- wan,
- weary,
- world-weary