Dormant \Dor"mant\, n. [See Dormant, a.] (Arch.)
A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of
the other timbers rest or " sleep." --Arch. Pub. Soc. --
Called also dormant tree, dorman tree, dormond, and
dormer. --Halliwell. Dormer
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dormant
adj 1: of e.g. volcanos; temporarily inactive; "a dormant volcano"
[syn: inactive] [ant: extinct, active]
2: lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn: dormant(ip),
sleeping]
3: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation;
"dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs" [syn:
hibernating(a), torpid]
4: not active but capable of becoming active; "her feelings of
affection are dormant but easily awakened"
WordNet (r) 2.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "dormant":
abeyant, apathetic, asleep, at rest, benumbed, between the lines,
blase, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, comatose, concealed,
contemplative, covert, cryptic, dead, dead asleep, debilitated,
deep asleep, delitescent, do-nothing, dopey, droopy, drugged, dull,
enervated, esoteric, exanimate, fast asleep, flaked-out, flat,
foul, groggy, heavy, hebetudinous, hibernating, hidden, idle,
immobile, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, inert,
jaded, lackadaisical, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid,
languorous, latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy,
lumpish, lurking, meditative, moribund, motionless, muffled,
mystic, neuter, neutral, numb, obfuscated, oblivious, obscured,
occult, out, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, pooped,
possible, potential, procrastinating, quiescent, quiet, quietist,
quietistic, resting, sated, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sleepy,
slow, sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, smoldering, somnolent,
sound asleep, stagnant, stagnating, standing, standpat, static,
stationary, still, stultified, submerged, supine, suspended, tame,
torpid, unaroused, unconscious, under the surface, underlying,
undisclosed, unexpressed, unmanifested, unmoving, unrevealed,
vegetable, vegetative, veiled, virtual, wan, weary, world-weary
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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