Synonyms for dormant
ˈdɔr məntdor·mant

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1. dormant

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

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

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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"

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

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

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"

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

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

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1. dormantadjective

   Synonyms:
   sleeping, quiescent, at rest

2. dormantadjective

   Synonyms:
   latent, unexerted, suspended, inert, inactive

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1. dormantadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "dormant":

   dormancy, inactive, latent, idle, unrealised, latency, unused

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1. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Stock market has become so boring for the last 1 week that traders feel that it is going nowhere as there is hardly any movement almost in dormant sleepy mood

2. Mitch Prinstein:

   Our species is uniquely and remarkably attuned to our social position because many years ago we relied on each other for safety, research now reveals that social rejection activates the same regions of the brain that are known to respond to physical pain, and also expresses dormant DNA to prepare our bodies for imminent injury. Unfortunately, this response is no longer necessary, so the expression of these genes leaves us more vulnerable to viral infections and more likely to suffer from inflammation-related illnesses.

3. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   Whether wealth bring the curse of selfishness along with it, or that the leaven was in our nature, only dormant till called forth by circumstances, we are only too apt to misuse it, even as others have done before us.

4. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   The seeds of greatness lie dormant within, waiting for the nurturing touch of purpose to awaken them.

5. The Biden administration:

   ( A) llowing the district court's erroneous and extraordinary injunction to take effect before this Court has been able to undertake plenary review would result in irreparable harm to the government that far outweighs any harm to respondents from a stay, mPP has been rescinded for 2.5 months, suspended for 8 months, and largely dormant for nearly 16 months.