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dormant - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not awake; asleep.
- adjective Present but not active or manifest though capable of becoming so: synonym: inactive.
- adjective Temporarily inactive.
- adjective Being in a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sleeping; asleep.
- In heraldry, lying down with its head on its fore paws, as if asleep: said of a beast used as a bearing.
- Hibernating: said of certain animals.
- In a state of rest or inactivity; quiescent; not in action, movement, force, or operation; being or kept in abeyance: as, a dormant rebellion; a dormant title; dormant privileges.
- noun A beam; a sleeper: formerly also dormond, dormant-tree. Also
dormer. Halliwell . - noun A dish which remains from the beginning to the end of a repast, such as cold pies, hams, and potted meats, placed down the middle of the table at a large entertainment; a centerpiece which is not removed.
- In botany, not active or growing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or “ sleep.”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Inactive ,asleep ,suspended .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lying with head on paws as if sleeping
- adjective in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- adjective (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
- adjective inactive but capable of becoming active
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old French, from present participle of dormir, to sleep, from Latin dormīre.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dormiēns, present participle of dormiō ("I sleep").
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Examples
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They are dormant, at any rate, to use another word, for the death of my text is not so absolute a death but that a resurrection is possible, and so _dormant_ comes to express pretty nearly the same thing.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The term dormant factor (bag-la nyal) means, literally, something that is “asleep to the taste of the mind.”
Dormant Grasping for True Existence According to Gelug Madhyamaka 2006
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How long they will remain dormant is anybody's guess.
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The firm's court-appointed receiver, Lee Richards, said the move "greatly reduced" the assets of the company, which he described as a dormant entity with no clients that served solely as a proprietary trading unit, Bloomberg reports.
Bobsguide News 2009
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The firm's court-appointed receiver, Lee Richards, said the move "greatly reduced" the assets of the company, which he described as a dormant entity with no clients that served solely as a proprietary trading unit, Bloomberg reports.
Bobsguide News 2009
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A human thirst for revenge, long dead, awakened in dormant parts of the brainstem.
365 tomorrows » Wake Up : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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A human thirst for revenge, long dead, awakened in dormant parts of the brainstem.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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A human thirst for revenge, long dead, awakened in dormant parts of the brainstem.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Clause 86 will remain dormant until the government chooses to enact it by order-in-council.
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But this side of her nature had lain dormant through the years, waiting for the mate to appear.
Chapter 2 2010
Related Words
synonyms (125)
Words with the same meaning
- 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
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