Dormant
/ˈdɔɹmənt/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A crossbeam or joist.
Adjective
- 1 Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended. not-comparable
"Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again."
- 2 In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant. not-comparable
"a lion dormant"
- 3 Leaning. not-comparable
Adjective
- 1 inactive but capable of becoming active wordnet
- 2 (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct wordnet
- 3 in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation wordnet
- 4 lying with head on paws as if sleeping wordnet
Example
More examples"In each of us there lies a dormant superhuman."
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dormiēns, present participle of dormiō (“I sleep”).