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dormant
adjective
1 dormant
In a condition of biological rest or suspended animation:
— Dormant buds.
synonyms: hibernating, torpid.
Roget 172:
inert,
inactive,
passive;
torpid
etc.
683;
sluggish,
dull,
heavy,
flat,
slack,
tame,
slow,
blunt;
unreactive;
lifeless,
dead,
uninfluential†.
latent,
dormant,
smoldering,
unexerted†.
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Roget 683:
inactive;
motionless
etc.
265;
unoccupied
etc.
(doing nothing)
681;
unbusied†.
indolent,
lazy,
slothful,
idle,
lusk†,
remiss,
slack,
inert,
torpid,
sluggish,
otiose,
languid,
supine,
heavy,
dull,
leaden,
lumpish†;
exanimate†,
soulless;
listless;
drony†,
dronish†;
lazy as Ludlam's dog.
dilatory,
laggard;
lagging
etc.
v.;
slow
etc.
275;
rusty,
flagging;
lackadaisical,
maudlin,
fiddle-faddle;
pottering
etc.
v.;
shilly-shally
etc.
(irresolute)
605.
sleeping,
etc.
v.;
asleep;
fast asleep,
dead asleep,
sound asleep;
in a sound sleep;
sound as a top,
dormant,
comatose;
in the arms of Morpheus,
in the lap of Morpheus.
sleepy,
sleepful†;
dozy†,
drowsy,
somnolent,
torpescent†,
lethargic,
lethargical†;
somnifacient†;
statuvolent†,
statuvolic†;
heavy,
heavy with sleep;
napping;
somnific†,
somniferous;
soporous†,
soporific,
soporiferous†;
hypnotic;
balmy,
dreamy;
unawakened,
unawakened.
sedative
etc.
174.
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2 dormant
of e.g. volcanos Not erupting and not extinct:
— A dormant volcano.
synonym: inactive.
3 dormant
Lying with head on paws as if sleeping.
synonym: sleeping.
4 dormant
Inactive but capable of becoming active:
— Her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened.
synonym: abeyant.
Roget 526:
latent;
lurking
etc.
v.;
secret
etc.
528;
occult;
implied
etc.
v.;
dormant;
abeyant.
unapparent,
unknown,
unseen
etc.
441;
in the background;
invisible
etc.
447;
indiscoverable†,
dark;
impenetrable
etc.
(unintelligible)
519;
unspied†,
unsuspected.
unsaid,
unwritten,
unpublished,
unbreathed†,
untalked of†,
untold
etc.
527,
unsung,
unexposed,
unproclaimed†,
undisclosed
etc.
529,
unexpressed;
not expressed,
tacit.
undeveloped,
solved,
unexplained,
untraced†,
undiscovered
etc.
480.1,
untracked,
unexplored,
uninvented†.
indirect,
crooked,
inferential;
by inference,
by implication;
implicit;
constructive;
allusive,
covert,
muffled;
steganographic†;
understood,
underhand,
underground;
delitescent†,
concealed
etc.
528.
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Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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