dormant
About 2.10 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
- adjective In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
a lion dormant
- adjective Leaning.
- noun A crossbeam or joist.
Similar words
asleep sleeping torpid quiescent inactive unerect hibernating sleepy rest dead
Often followed by
in for and until state or period season during
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