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Another word for quiescent

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quiescent

modif.

quiet, still, inactive, dormant; see calm 2, latent. See syn. study at latent.

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Another word for quiescent

adjective

Existing in a temporarily inactive form or state:

abeyant, dormant, inactive, latent, sleeping. See action, show

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It has been quiescent since 1566, and is now completely extinct.
But experience in other parts of Japan shows that a long quiescent crater may at any moment burst into disastrous activity.
But the French were too weak in these seas for offensive movements, and therefore remained quiescent at Bourbon and Mauritius till the beginning of 1782.
The prominences are of two kinds, quiescent and eruptive.
Egmont (8340 ft.) is quiescent, but its symmetrical form and dense clothing of forest make it the most beautiful of the three.

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