Dormant Synonyms and Antonyms

dôrmənt
Inactive
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. latent
  2. abeyant
  3. inactive
  4. inoperative
  5. inert
  6. quiescent
  7. in abeyance
  8. sleeping
Antonyms:
  1. active
Present but not active or manifest though capable of becoming so:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. inactive

Words Related to Dormant

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. action
  2. couchant
  3. show
  4. untriggered
  5. undisturbed

Dormant Sentence Examples

  • They are cut to the last dormant bud in winter.

  • In the winter it covers the orifice of this burrow with a layer of silk, and lies dormant underground until the return of spring.

  • The developing seed thus encloses fungal hyphae, which remain dormant within the seed and in spring develop symbiotically with the growth of the wheat plant, doing no apparent injury until the time of fruiting is reached, when the fungus takes complete possession and fills the new seed with a mass of darkcoloured spores.

  • In Owen's Valley is a fine group of extinct or dormant volcanoes.

  • A lesson in geometry, given by Ostilio Ricci to the pages of the grand-ducal court, chanced, tradition avers, to have Galileo for an unseen listener; his attention was riveted, his dormant genius was roused, and he threw all his energies into the new pursuit thus unexpectedly presented to him.

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