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. Craig Clements:

   April 1 is usually the time of year we have the highest fuel moisture content, and this year they are still dormant because lack of rain, they are stressed and there's no new growth. The plants aren't responding because of the lack of moisture.

2. Malcolm X:

   I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

3. Hari Shankar:

   Cobras generally do not bite unless they are highly provoked. And after 8 p.m. they're generally dormant.

4. James Bond:

   I will be asked about him until my dying days it just goes with the territory. Hes a beloved character. I was honored to play the role and I rejuvenated a franchise that had been dormant. HALLE BERRY CHOOSES NEXT JAMES BOND STAR : ID GO FOR HIM Brosnan previously endorsed Tom Hardy as the next Bond, telling The Mail on Sunday in 2018, I think Tom Hardy could be a good Bond. Id be happy to see him do it. You need an actor who can put a bit of wiggle into it thats what makes Bond. FORMER BOND DIRECTOR SAYS ROBERT PATTINSON SHOULD BE THE NEXT 007 Brosnan also addressed the womanizing spy potentially needing to adapt to a post - #MeToo era. Without question, yes... The #MeToo movement has been relevant and significant and well needed in our society.

5. 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.