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. 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.

4. Mitch Prinstein:

   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.

5. Felix Adler:

   The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.