Thesaurus: dormant

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1. a. Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
2. a. In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
3. a. A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
4. adj. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
5. adj. (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
6. adj. lying with head on paws as if sleeping
7. adj. inactive but capable of becoming active
8. j:100 s. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation a. (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct s. lying with head on paws as if sleeping