Antonyms for dormant
ˈdɔr məntdor·mant

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1. dormant

   Antonyms:
   vigilant, wakeful, active, operative, developed, energetic

   Synonyms:
   sleeping, slumbering, latent, undeveloped, quiescent, inert

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1. dormant, hibernating(a), torpidadjective

   in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

   "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"

   Antonyms:
   active, erect, eruptive, awake(p), vertical, upright

2. dormant, inactiveadjective

   (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct

   "a dormant volcano"

   Antonyms:
   active, vertical, erect, awake(p), eruptive, upright

   Synonyms:
   passive, sleeping, dormant(ip), abeyant, still, inactive, hibernating(a), nonoperational, static, motionless, torpid

3. dormant(ip), sleepingadjective

   lying with head on paws as if sleeping

   Antonyms:
   awake(p), erect, upright, eruptive, active, vertical

4. abeyant, dormantadjective

   inactive but capable of becoming active

   "her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened"

   Antonyms:
   erect, eruptive, awake(p), active, vertical, upright

   Synonyms:
   abeyant, inactive, sleeping, dormant(ip), hibernating(a), torpid

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1. dormantadjective

   Synonyms:
   quiescent, latent, inert, inactive, abeyant, torpid

How to use dormant in a sentence?

1. Takayuki Atake:

   We are likely to see more companies launch bonds in durations like 20-years, a maturity which had been dormant issuance-wise.

2. Erin Kara:

   Tidal disruption events offer us this rare view at the most common kind of supermassive black hole in the universe— these so-called dormant supermassive black holes, tidal disruption events, where the stellar debris causes the formation of a temporary accretion disk, offers us a way to probe this population of supermassive black holes.

3. Dr Schulze-Makuch:

   In the past, researchers have found dying organisms near the surface and remnants of DNA but this is really the first time that anyone has been able to identify a persistent form of life living in the soil of the Atacama Desert, we believe these microbial communities can lay dormant for hundreds or even thousands of years in conditions very similar to what you would find on a planet like Mars and then come back to life when it rains.

4. Steve Vladeck:

   For years, conservatives have been pressuring the court to reinvigorate long-dormant limits on Congress' power to delegate regulatory authority to administrative agencies.

5. Henry Hon:

   The body of Christ cannot be built when the majority of believers are dormant and not exercising their gifts.

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