dormant
inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
Example
“Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.”
Other meanings
In a sleeping posture; distinguished from .
“a lion dormant”
Related words
- antidormant
- dormantly
- dormantory
- ecodormant
- endodormant
- hyperdormant
- nondormant
- paradormant
- quasidormant
- superdormant
- undormant
- dormant volcano
Word history
From Latin "dormiēns".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “dormant” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.