dormant
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
dormant (not comparable)
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
- The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months.
- This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- a lion dormant
- (architecture) Leaning.
- (inactive, suspended) quiescent; see also Thesaurus:inactive
- French: dormant, endormi, inactif
- German: schlafend, inaktiv
- Portuguese: dormente, inativo
- Russian: неакти́вный
- Spanish: latente
dormant (plural dormants)
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